Whenever maintenance of way crews or employees are working in the area of double or multiple railroad tracks, the following safety precautions shall be mandatory: (1) All trains shall be notified of the location of the crews or employees by mile markers or mile posts by train order. (2) All trains operating adjacent to such a work area shall reduce speed to freight train speed, not to exceed fifty miles per hour (50 m.p.h.). (3) One member of the crew shall be assigned as a flagperson to warn of approaching trains and shall be equipped with a radio, horn, and flag. (4) No work shall be conducted and all employees shall stand clear while a train is approaching, passing, and clearing a work area. (5) Failure by the railroad company to issue information by train order, which results in any violation of the above requirements, will subject the railroad company to a fine of five hundred dollars ($500) for each violation. The fine will be collected by the public utilities commission and remitted to the general fund of the state. History of Section.P.L. 1988, ch. 183, § 1; P.L. 1989, ch. 104, § 1.
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