Source: https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=81.44&full=true
Timestamp: 2020-01-19 12:58:30
Document Index: 734447714

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 38', '§ 81', '§ 64', '§ 10400', '§ 39', '§ 1', '§ 1', '§ 81', '§ 65', '§ 10401', '§ 40', '§ 81', '§ 66', '§ 10402', '§ 391', '§ 7', '§ 81', '§ 1', '§ 81', '§ 68', '§ 10404', 'art 212', '§ 19', '§ 3']

Chapter 81.44 RCW: COMMON CARRIERS—EQUIPMENT
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Chapter 81.44 RCW
COMMON CARRIERS—EQUIPMENT
81.44.010 Order for improved equipment and facilities.
81.44.020 Correction of unsafe or defective conditions—Walkways and handrails as unsafe or defective condition, when.
81.44.040 Streetcars.
81.44.070 Duties of inspector of safety appliances.
81.44.085 First aid kits and drinking water—Penalty.
81.44.130 Safeguarding frogs, switches, and guard rails.
81.44.170 Hazardous materials inspections—Authority for certified commission employees to enter property of certain businesses.
81.44.180 Annual work plan and inspection activity—Incorporation of certain data.
Excessive steam in boilers, penalty: RCW 70.54.080.
Safety and health, tunnels and underground construction: Chapter 49.24 RCW.
Steam boilers, pressure vessels, construction, inspection, etc.: Chapter 70.79 RCW.
Tampering with signals, lights, etc.: RCW 88.08.020.
RCW 81.44.010
Order for improved equipment and facilities.
Whenever the commission, after a hearing had upon its own motion or upon complaint, finds that any equipment or facility for use by any common carrier in, or in connection with the transportation of persons or property, ought reasonably to be provided, or any repairs or improvements to, or changes in, any theretofore in use ought reasonably to be made, or any additions or changes in construction should reasonably be made thereto, in order to promote the security or convenience of the public or employees, or in order to secure adequate service or facilities for the transportation of passengers or property, the commission may, after a hearing, either on its own motion or after complaint, serve an order directing such repairs, improvements, changes, or additions to be made.
[ 2007 c 234 § 38; 1961 c 14 § 81.44.010. Prior: 1911 c 117 § 64; RRS § 10400.]
RCW 81.44.020
Correction of unsafe or defective conditions—Walkways and handrails as unsafe or defective condition, when.
If upon investigation the commission finds that the equipment, facilities, tracks, bridges, or other structures of any common carrier are defective, and that the operation thereof is dangerous to the employees of the common carrier or to the public, it shall immediately give notice to the superintendent or other officer of the common carrier of the repairs or reconstruction necessary to place the same in a safe condition. The commission may also prescribe the rate of speed for trains or cars passing over the dangerous or defective track, bridge, or other structure until the repairs or reconstruction required are made, and may also prescribe the time when the repairs or reconstruction must be made; or if, in the commission's opinion, it is needful or proper, the commission may forbid trains or cars to run over any defective track, bridge, or structure until the track, bridge, or structure is repaired and placed in a safe condition. Railroad bridges or trestles without walkways and handrails may be identified as an unsafe or defective condition under this section after a hearing by the commission upon complaint or on its own motion. The commission, in making the determination, shall balance considerations of employee and public safety with the potential for increased danger to the public resulting from adding walkways or handrails to railway bridges. A railroad company and its employees are not liable for injury to or death of any person occurring on or about any railway bridge or trestle if the person was not a railway employee but was a trespasser or was otherwise not authorized to be in the location where the injury or death occurred.
Appeal from or action to review any order of the commission made under this section is not available if the commission finds that immediate compliance is necessary for the protection of employees or the public.
[ 2007 c 234 § 39; 1982 c 141 § 1; 1977 ex.s. c 46 § 1; 1961 c 14 § 81.44.020. Prior: 1911 c 117 § 65; RRS § 10401.]
RCW 81.44.040
Every streetcar must be equipped with proper and efficient brakes, steps, grab irons or hand rails, fenders or aprons or pilots, and with such other appliances, apparatus, and machinery necessary for the safe operation of the streetcar as the commission may prescribe.
[ 2007 c 234 § 40; 1961 c 14 § 81.44.040. Prior: 1911 c 117 § 66, part; RRS § 10402, part. Formerly RCW 81.44.040 and 81.64.120, part.]
RCW 81.44.085
First aid kits and drinking water—Penalty.
(1) Every person operating a common carrier railroad in this state shall equip each locomotive and caboose used in train or yard switching service, and every car used in passenger service with a first aid kit of a type to be approved by the commission, which kit shall be plainly marked and be readily visible and accessible and be maintained in a fully quipped condition: PROVIDED, That such kits shall not be required on equipment used exclusively in yard or switching service where such kits are maintained in the yard or terminal.
(2) Each locomotive and caboose shall also be furnished with sanitary cups and sanitary ice-cooled drinking water.
(3) For the purpose of this section a "locomotive" shall include all railroad engines propelled by any form of energy and used in rail line haul or yard switching service.
(4) Any person violating this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.
[ 2003 c 53 § 391; 1969 ex.s. c 210 § 7; 1961 c 14 § 81.44.085. Prior: 1951 c 66 §§ 1, 2, 3.]
RCW 81.44.130
Safeguarding frogs, switches, and guard rails.
Every railroad and street railroad operating in this state shall so adjust, fill, block and securely guard all frogs, switches and guard rails so as to protect and prevent the feet of persons being caught therein.
[ 1961 c 14 § 81.44.130. Prior: 1911 c 117 § 68; RRS § 10404.]
RCW 81.44.170
Hazardous materials inspections—Authority for certified commission employees to enter property of certain businesses.
Commission employees certified by the federal railroad administration to perform hazardous materials inspections may enter the property of any business that receives, ships, or offers for shipment hazardous materials by rail. Entry shall be at a reasonable time and in a reasonable manner. The purpose of entry is limited to performing inspections, investigations, or surveillance of equipment, records, and operations relating to the packaging, loading, unloading, or transportation of hazardous materials by rail, pursuant only to the state participation program outlined in 49 C.F.R. Part 212. The term "business" is all inclusive and is not limited to common carriers or public service companies.
[ 2015 c 274 § 19.]
RCW 81.44.180
Annual work plan and inspection activity—Incorporation of certain data.
(1) The commission shall, for the purposes of targeting high-risk inspections, incorporate data received from the department of ecology as required under RCW 90.56.565(4) in the development of its annual work plan and inspection activity.
(2) Nothing in this section is intended to interfere with or prevent the participation of the commission in the federal railroad administration's state rail safety participation program.
[ 2019 c 354 § 3.]