California · Public Utilities Code - PUC

PUC §7677: No person, firm, or corporation operating a railroad with more than four trains each way every 24 hours shall require or permit any engineer, fireman, conductor, brakeman, or trainman to receive, deli

Misdemeanor

What this law says, in plain English

Railroads with more than four trains per direction daily cannot require employees to receive or transmit train movement orders via telegraph or telephone, except as permitted by the commission. Violation is a misdemeanor.

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No person, firm, or corporation operating a railroad with more than four trains each way every 24 hours shall require or permit any engineer, fireman, conductor, brakeman, or trainman to receive, deliver, or transmit at any receiving or forwarding instrument of any telegraph or telephone line, any order for the movement of any train, except in such cases or classes of cases as are permitted by the commission. This section does not apply to interurban or street railroads. Any person, firm, or corporation violating this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.

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