Source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/49/220.5
Timestamp: 2020-01-18 21:19:15
Document Index: 195500804

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 220', 'art 220', '§ 220', '§ 220', 'art 232', 'art 238']

49 CFR § 220.5 - Definitions. | CFR | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute
Part 220. RAILROAD COMMUNICATIONS
Section 220.5. Definitions.
49 CFR § 220.5 - Definitions.
Electronic device means an electronic or electrical device used to conduct oral, written, or visual communication; place or receive a telephone call; send or read an electronic mail message or text message; look at pictures; read a book or other written material; play a game; navigate the Internet; navigate the physical world; play, view, or listen to a video; play, view, or listen to a television broadcast; play or listen to a radio broadcast other than a radio broadcast by a railroad; play or listen to music; execute a computational function; or, perform any other function that is not necessary for the health or safety of the person and that entails the risk of distracting the employee or another railroad operating employee from a safety-related task. This term does not include -
Joint operations means rail operations conducted by more than one railroad on the track of a railroad subject to the requirements of § 220.9(a), except as necessary for the purpose of interchange.
Locomotive means a piece of on-track equipment other than hi-rail, specialized maintenance, or other similar equipment -
With one or more propelling motors designed to carry freight or passenger traffic, or both; or
Railroad operating employee means a person performing duties subject to -
An individual engaged in or connected with the movement of a train, including a hostler, as defined in 49 U.S.C. 21101(5), who is subject to 49 U.S.C. 21103 effective July 16, 2009;
A train employee providing commuter rail passenger transportation or intercity rail passenger transportation as defined in 49 U.S.C. 24102 who, pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 21102(c), is subject to 49 U.S.C. 21103 as it was in effect on October 15, 2008; or
An individual subject to any Federal Railroad Administration regulations prescribed pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 21109 governing the hours of service of train employees.
Train, for purposes of subparts A and B of this part, means one or more locomotives coupled with or without cars, requiring an air brake test in accordance with 49 CFR part 232 or part 238, except during switching operations or where the operation is that of classifying and assembling rail cars within a railroad yard for the purpose of making or breaking up trains. The term, for purposes of subpart C of this part, means -
A single locomotive,
Multiple locomotives coupled together, or
One or more locomotives coupled with one or more cars.
Tunnels or other localized places of extreme topography, and
Temporary lapses of coverage due to atmospheric or topographic conditions. In the case of joint operations on another railroad, the radio must be able to reach the control center of the host railroad.