Regulations last checked for updates: Nov 22, 2024

Title 49 - Transportation last revised: Nov 18, 2024
§ 218.57 - Responsibilities of individuals.

Any individual who knowingly operates a train, or permits it to be operated, when the controlling locomotive of that train is equipped with a disabled safety device, is subject to a civil penalty and to disqualification from performing safety-sensitive functions on a railroad if found to be unfit for such duties. See appendix B to this part for a statement of agency enforcement policy concerning violations of this section. See FRA's website at www.fra.dot.gov for a statement of agency civil penalty policy.

[84 FR 23734, May 23, 2019]
source: 44 FR 2175, Jan. 10, 1979, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 49 CFR 218.57