California · Public Utilities Code - PUC

PUC §7681: Every engineer, conductor, brakeman, switch-tender, or other officer, agent, or servant of any railroad company, who is guilty of any wilful violation or omission of his duty as such officer, agent, o

Misdemeanor

What this law says, in plain English

Railroad employees who willfully violate or neglect their duties in ways that endanger human life or safety are guilty of a misdemeanor, unless another statute prescribes different punishment.

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Every engineer, conductor, brakeman, switch-tender, or other officer, agent, or servant of any railroad company, who is guilty of any wilful violation or omission of his duty as such officer, agent, or servant, whereby human life or safety is endangered, the punishment of which is not otherwise prescribed, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

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