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SUBSTITUTE
HOUSE BILL 2281
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Passed
Legislature - 1992 Regular Session
State of Washington 52nd
Legislature 1992 Regular Session
Read first time 02/05/92. Modifying requirements for crew size on passenger trains.
AN ACT
Relating to passenger train crew size; and amending RCW 81.40.010.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE
OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec.
1. RCW 81.40.010
and 1961 c 14 s 81.40.010 are each amended to read as follows:
((It
shall be unlawful for any person, corporation, company, or officer of court
operating any railroad or railway, or part of any railroad or railway, in the
state of Washington, and engaged, as a common carrier, in the transportation of
freight or passengers, to operate over its road or any part thereof, or suffer
or permit to be run over its road outside of the yard limits, any passenger,
mail or express train consisting of four or more cars with less than a full
passenger crew consisting of five men, to wit: one engineer, one fireman, one
conductor, one brakeman and one flagman (said flagman to have had at least one
year's experience in train service) and none of the said crew shall be required
or permitted to perform the duties of train baggageman or express messenger
while on the road)) No law or order of any regulatory agency of this
state shall prevent a common carrier by railroad from staffing its passenger
trains in accordance with collective bargaining agreements or any national or
other applicable settlement of train crew size. In the absence of a collective
bargaining agreement or any national or other applicable settlement of train
crew size, any common carrier railroad operating a passenger train with a crew
of less than two members shall be subject to a safety review by the Washington
utilities and transportation commission, which, as to staffing, may issue an
order requiring as many as two crew members.
