Bill Title: To require the crews of freight trains to consist of at least two individuals.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-07-21 - To Commerce & Labor
[SB354 Detail]Download: Ohio-2013-SB354-Introduced.html
As Introduced
130th General Assembly | Regular Session | 2013-2014 |
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Cosponsors:
Senators Brown, Schiavoni, Skindell, Turner
A BILL
| To enact section 4999.09 of the Revised Code to | 1 |
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require the crews of freight trains to consist of | 2 |
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at least two individuals. | 3 |
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That section 4999.09 of the Revised Code be | 4 |
enacted to read as follows: | 5 |
Sec. 4999.09. (A) A train or light engine used in connection | 6 |
with the movement of freight shall have a crew that consists of at | 7 |
least two individuals. No superintendent, trainmaster, or other | 8 |
employee of a railroad shall order or otherwise require a train or | 9 |
light engine used in connection with the movement of freight to be | 10 |
operated unless it has a crew that consists of at least two | 11 |
individuals. | 12 |
As used in this division, "train or light engine used in | 13 |
connection with the movement of freight" does not include hostler | 14 |
service or utility employees. | 15 |
(B) Whoever purposely violates division (A) of this section | 16 |
shall be liable for a civil penalty of not less than two hundred | 17 |
fifty but not more than one thousand dollars. For a second | 18 |
violation of division (A) of this section within three years of | 19 |
the first violation, the person shall be liable for a civil | 20 |
penalty of not less than one thousand but not more than five | 21 |
thousand dollars. For a third or subsequent violation of division | 22 |
(A) of this section within three years of the first violation, the | 23 |
offender shall be liable for a civil penalty of not less than five | 24 |
thousand but not more than ten thousand dollars. | 25 |
The attorney general, upon the request of the public | 26 |
utilities commission, shall bring a civil action to collect the | 27 |
penalties described in this division. All penalties collected | 28 |
under this division shall be deposited into the state treasury to | 29 |
the credit of the public utilities fund created in section 4905.10 | 30 |
of the Revised Code. | 31 |