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MO Rev Stat § 389.790 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 389 - Regulation of Railroad Corporations|Section 389.790 - Safety switch appliances and guard rails to be maintained — penalty.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   389.790. Safety switch appliances and guard rails to be maintained — penalty. — 1. All companies or corporations, lessees or other persons owning or operating any railroad or part of railroad in this state, are hereby required, on or before the first day of September, 1907, to adopt, put in use and maintain the best known appliances or inventions to fill or block all switches, frogs and guard rails on their roads, in all yards, divisional and terminal stations, and where trains are made up, to prevent, as far as possible, the feet of employees or other persons from being caught therein.  2. Any company or corporation, lessee or other person, owning or operating any railroad, or part of a railroad, in this state, who shall fail to do any act or thing in this section required to be done, or shall cause any act or thing not to be done, or shall aid or abet any such omission, shall be deemed guilty of a violation of this law, and shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars for every such offense, and each day shall constitute a separate and distinct offense. At every term of a court of record of this state having criminal jurisdiction, the judge thereof shall direct and charge grand juries to make special inquiry as to violation of this section. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5233)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4776; 1919 § 9964; 1909 § 3163
MO Rev Stat § 389.795 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 389 - Regulation of Railroad Corporations|Section 389.795 - Walkways and handrails on bridges and trestles.

Effective - 28 Aug 1969   389.795. Walkways and handrails on bridges and trestles. — In cases in which the motor carrier and railroad safety division of the department of economic development finds the same to be practical and necessary for safety of railroad employees, bridges and trestles, over and upon which railroad trains are operated, shall include as a part thereof, safe and suitable walkway and handrail on one side only of such bridge or trestle, and such handrail shall be located at the outer edge of said walkway and shall provide a clearance of not less than eight feet, six inches, from the center line of the nearest track, measured at right angles thereto. ­­-------- (L. 1959 H.B. 301 § 1, A.L. 1969 H.B. 409)  CROSS REFERENCE:  Division of motor carrier and railroad safety abolished, duties and functions transferred to highways and transportation commission and department of transportation, 226.008
MO Rev Stat § 389.797 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 389 - Regulation of Railroad Corporations|Section 389.797 - Employee walkways to be kept clear, enforcement.

Effective - 28 Aug 1988   389.797. Employee walkways to be kept clear, enforcement. — Any person, firm or corporation doing business in this state shall keep and maintain those margins alongside their tracks, where railroad employees are required to walk in the course of their duties, reasonably free from debris, vegetation and any hazards known or which should have been known to exist, which affect the safety of such employees. The division may enforce this section and prosecute any violation thereof. The division shall prescribe rules for the construction and maintenance of walkways and the materials used in such walkways. Any track found to be in violation of this section may be removed from service by order of the division. ­­-------- (L. 1961 p. 416 §§ 1, 2, A.L. 1988 S.B. 676)  CROSS REFERENCE:  Division of motor carrier and railroad safety abolished, duties and functions transferred to highways and transportation commission and department of transportation, 226.008
MO Rev Stat § 389.800 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 389 - Regulation of Railroad Corporations|Section 389.800 - Contributory negligence not to relieve from liability.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   389.800. Contributory negligence not to relieve from liability. — When any employee or other person shall be injured, maimed or killed, by reason of the noncompliance with the provisions of section 389.790, then in any action for damages which may be instituted against any railroad company, corporation or lessee for such injuring, maiming or killing, proof of contributory negligence or carelessness on the part of any employee or other person so injured, maimed or killed, shall not relieve such railroad company, corporation or lessee from liability. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5234)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4777; 1919 § 9965; 1909 § 3164
MO Rev Stat § 389.810 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 389 - Regulation of Railroad Corporations|Section 389.810 - Engines to be equipped with power drive wheel brakes.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   389.810. Engines to be equipped with power drive wheel brakes. — From and after the first day of January, 1908, it shall be unlawful for any person, persons, partnership or corporation, operating any line of railroad, in whole or in part, within this state, either as owner, lessee or receiver, for the purpose of moving freight or passengers between points wholly within this state, to use upon such line of railroad any locomotive or engine to move such train of cars over such railroad without having such locomotive or engine equipped with power drive wheel brakes and fully and properly equipped with air brake appliances so that the engineer operating such locomotive or engine shall have the means of fully and completely controlling the air brakes on the cars attached to said locomotive and engine without recourse to hand brakes, except in cases of emergency. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5235)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4778; 1919 § 9966; 1909 § 3165
MO Rev Stat § 389.820 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 389 - Regulation of Railroad Corporations|Section 389.820 - Safety appliances — automatic couplers.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   389.820. Safety appliances — automatic couplers. — From and after the first day of January, 1908, it shall be unlawful for any person, persons, company or corporation, operating any line of railroad, in whole or in part, in this state, either as owner, lessee or receiver, to use or permit to be used or hauled between stations within this state, on said line of railroad, any locomotive, tender, car or other vehicle for moving persons or freight, which shall not be equipped with handholds, grab irons and couplers, coupling automatically by impact, and which can be coupled without the necessity of men going between the ends of the cars for the purpose of effecting such coupling. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5236)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4779; 1919 § 9967; 1909 § 3166
MO Rev Stat § 389.830 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 389 - Regulation of Railroad Corporations|Section 389.830 - Standard drawbars to be used — height of same.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   389.830. Standard drawbars to be used — height of same. — From and after the first day of January, 1908, it shall be unlawful for any person, persons, company or corporation, operating any line of railroad, in whole or in part, within this state, whether as owner, lessee or receiver, to use any locomotive, tender, car or similar vehicle for the purpose of carrying persons or freight, on its line of railroad, between stations wholly within the state, unless such locomotive, tender, car or other similar vehicle shall be equipped with standard drawbars; that the standard height of drawbars on all standard gauge roads shall be thirty-four and one-half inches, measuring from the top of the track rails to the center of the drawbar; and upon narrow gauge roads such standard drawbar shall be twenty-six inches from the top of the track rails to the center of the drawbar, and the maximum variation from such standard height to be allowed between empty and loaded cars shall be three inches, whether or not the drawbars brought together are of the same kind, make or type. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5237)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4780; 1919 § 9968; 1909 § 3167
MO Rev Stat § 389.840 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 389 - Regulation of Railroad Corporations|Section 389.840 - Cars to be equipped with air or power brakes.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   389.840. Cars to be equipped with air or power brakes. — From and after the first day of January, 1908, it shall be unlawful for any person, persons, company or corporation, operating any line of railroad, in whole or in part, in this state, either as owner, lessee or receiver, to operate any train of cars over such line of railroad between stations within this state, unless at least seventy-five percent of the cars composing such train shall be equipped with air or power brakes, and any of the remaining twenty-five percent of such cars composing such train shall be so equipped with such air or power brakes; they shall be so associated and connected that brakes thereon can be used, managed and operated by the engineer of the locomotive drawing such train. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5238)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4781; 1919 § 9969; 1909 § 3168
MO Rev Stat § 389.850 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 389 - Regulation of Railroad Corporations|Section 389.850 - Application of provisions of sections 389.810 to 389.870.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   389.850. Application of provisions of sections 389.810 to 389.870. — The provisions and requirements of sections 389.810 to 389.870 relating to power drive wheel brakes, train brakes, automatic couplers, grab irons and the standard height of drawbars, shall be held to apply to all trains, locomotives, tenders, cars and similar devices used on or by any railroad engaged in the transportation of persons and freight between points within the state of Missouri; provided, however, that the provisions of said sections shall not apply to street railroads nor to tram railroads employed in the transportation of logs. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5239)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4783; 1919 § 9971; 1909 § 3170
MO Rev Stat § 389.860 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 389 - Regulation of Railroad Corporations|Section 389.860 - Penalty for violation of sections 389.810 to 389.870 — suit, where brought.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   389.860. Penalty for violation of sections 389.810 to 389.870 — suit, where brought. — Any such person, persons, company or corporation operating any railroad, in whole or in part, within this state, whether as owner, lessee or receiver, who shall violate any of the provisions of sections 389.810 to 389.870 shall be liable to the state of Missouri in a penalty of not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars for each offense, and such penalty shall be recovered and suit therefor shall be brought in the name of the state of Missouri, in any court of competent jurisdiction in any county in the state, into or through which such railway may run, by the attorney general, or under his direction, or by the prosecuting attorney of any county through or into or out of which trains may be operated by such railroad or by the circuit attorney in the city of St. Louis. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5240)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4784; 1919 § 9972; 1909 § 3171
MO Rev Stat § 389.870 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 389 - Regulation of Railroad Corporations|Section 389.870 - Employee not guilty of contributory negligence, when.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   389.870. Employee not guilty of contributory negligence, when. — Any employee of such railroad so operated as aforesaid who may be injured by any train, locomotive, tender, car or similar vehicle in use contrary to the provisions of sections 389.810 to 389.870 shall not be deemed to have assumed the risk thereby occasioned, nor to have been guilty of contributory negligence, because of continuing in the employment of such railroad or in the performance of his duties as such employee after the unlawful use of such train, locomotive, tender, car or similar device shall have been brought to his knowledge. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5241)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4785; 1919 § 9973; 1909 § 3172
MO Rev Stat § 389.900 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 389 - Regulation of Railroad Corporations|Section 389.900 - Locomotives to be equipped with electric headlights — power of same — exceptions.

Effective - 28 Aug 1939   389.900. Locomotives to be equipped with electric headlights — power of same — exceptions. — That all companies, corporations, lessees, owners, operators or receivers of any railroad or railway company operating a railroad or railway in whole or in part in this state, are hereby required to equip, maintain and use upon every locomotive being operated in road service in this state in the nighttime an electric headlight of fifteen hundred candle power brilliancy, measured with the aid of a reflector, and classification signals not less than six candle power; provided, that nothing in this law shall be so construed as to prevent a locomotive engine whose headlight has become defective while on the road from proceeding to the most convenient terminal or division point where the necessary facilities exist for remedying such defect, but nothing in this law shall relieve any such company, corporation, lessee, owner, operator or receiver of any railroad or railway company of any liability for injury or damage to persons or property, or for the death of any person, caused by proceeding with an engine having such defective headlight; and provided further, that the provisions of this law shall not apply to independent lines of railroad less than seventy-five miles in length; and provided further, that the provisions of this law shall not apply during the first ninety days of a strike of the particular employees whose duties are to repair and maintain electric headlights. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5274)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4845; 1919 § 10032  CROSS REFERENCE:  Division of motor carrier and railroad safety abolished, duties and functions transferred to highways and transportation commission and department of transportation, 226.008  (1968) The failure of locomotive engineer to give statutory crossing signals does not give drivers right to approach blind crossing heedlessly, if they know of existence of crossing. Hupman v. Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad Co. (A.), 429 S.W.2d 343.
MO Rev Stat § 389.920 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 389 - Regulation of Railroad Corporations|Section 389.920 - First aid kits, duty of railroad to provide — rules regulating.

Effective - 28 Aug 1988   389.920. First aid kits, duty of railroad to provide — rules regulating. — Every corporation, lessee, owner, operator or receiver or other person owning or operating a railroad in the state of Missouri shall provide and maintain in a plainly marked accessible location on all passenger train cars, cabooses, each locomotive unit capable of independent operation and all motorized on-track work equipment used in railroad operations, which weigh in excess of four hundred pounds, a first aid kit conforming to such requirements as the division may, by rule, prescribe. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5287, A.L. 1988 S.B. 676)  Prior revision: 1929 § 4859  CROSS REFERENCE:  Division of motor carrier and railroad safety abolished, duties and functions transferred to highways and transportation commission and department of transportation, 226.008
MO Rev Stat § 389.945 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 389 - Regulation of Railroad Corporations|Section 389.945 - Safety rules for motor vehicles used to transport employees by rail — hearings — inspection of vehicles — penalties.

Effective - 28 Aug 1965   389.945. Safety rules for motor vehicles used to transport employees by rail — hearings — inspection of vehicles — penalties. — 1. The motor carrier and railroad safety division of the department of economic development of Missouri shall make and enforce reasonable safety rules and regulations relating to motor vehicles designed for highway use and used by common carriers by rail to transport employees, tools and supplies, to and from their places of employment or during the course of their employment. These rules and regulations shall establish minimum standards:  (1) For the construction and mechanical equipment of a motor vehicle;  (2) For the loading and carrying of tools, supplies, and employees; the transportation of gasoline, or other inflammable materials and explosives;  (3) For the safety of employees in a motor vehicle, where gang size will not permit all employees to ride in driver's cab, adequate seating facilities, heating facilities and communication between cab and rear compartment and means of retaining tools and supplies within the motor vehicle;  (4) The rules and regulations shall apply only to vehicles acquired after the effective date of the rules and regulations. In case of an emergency, vehicles not complying with the rules and regulations may be used.  2. Before formulating such rules and regulations, the division of motor carrier and railroad safety shall conduct hearings and invite participation of interested groups. These groups may make suggestions relating to the minimum standards to be embodied in the rules and regulations. The division shall consider the suggestions prior to the issuance of any rules and regulations.  3. The division may amend the rules and regulations at any time upon its own motion or upon complaint by an individual or group, in the same manner as it adopts other rules and regulations.  4. The division may, in enforcing the rules and regulations, inspect any motor vehicle to which these rules apply. Upon request, the superintendent of the Missouri state highway patrol shall assist the division in these inspections.  5. Violation by the owner of a motor vehicle of any rule or regulation or any amendment thereto promulgated pursuant to this section or any order issued by the division under this section, or willful failure to comply with such an order, is a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, the owner shall be sentenced to undergo imprisonment for not more than one year, or to pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or both. ­­-------- (L. 1965 p. 590 §§ 1 to 5)  CROSS REFERENCE:  Division of motor carrier and railroad safety abolished, duties and functions transferred to highways and transportation commission and department of transportation, 226.008
MO Rev Stat § 389.990 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 389 - Regulation of Railroad Corporations|Section 389.990 - Bell and whistle at crossings — penalty.

Effective - 28 Aug 1955   389.990. Bell and whistle at crossings — penalty. — A bell shall be placed on each locomotive engine, and be rung at a distance of at least eighty rods from the place where the railroad shall cross any traveled public road or street, and be kept ringing until it shall have crossed such road or street, or a horn or whistle shall be attached to such engine and be sounded at least eighty rods from the place where the railroad shall cross any such road or street, except in cities, and be sounded at intervals until it shall have crossed such road or street, under a penalty of twenty dollars for every neglect of the provisions of this section, to be paid by the corporation owning the railroad, to be sued for by the prosecuting or circuit attorney of the proper circuit, within ten days after such penalty was incurred, one-half thereof to go to the informer and the other half to the county; and said corporation shall also be liable for all damages which any person may hereafter sustain at such crossing when such bell shall not be rung or such horn or whistle sounded as required by this section; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall preclude the corporation sued from showing that the failure to ring such bell or sound such horn or whistle was not the cause of such injury. ­­-------- (RSMo 1939 § 5213, A.L. 1955 p. 578)  Prior revisions: 1929 § 4756; 1919 § 9943; 1909 § 3140  (1953) Railroad's duty under this section is performed if it sounds either the bell or whistle as, and for the distance, required by statute. Chamberlain v. Thompson (Mo.), 256 S.W.2d 779. (1954) This section does not abolish common law duty of railroad to warn of approach of its trains at crossing, but is cumulative thereto and provides only minimum requirements. Hackett v. Wabash R.R. Co. (Mo.), 271 S.W.2d 573.  (1955) Where railroad operated trains on property of manufacturer for the joint benefit of the railroad and manufacturer, there was common law duty to give warning when approaching private crossing on manufacturer's property. Dickerson v. Term. R.R. Assn. of St. Louis (Mo.), 284 S.W.2d 568.
MO Rev Stat § 389.991 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 389 - Regulation of Railroad Corporations|Section 389.991 - Definitions.

Effective - 28 Aug 1971   389.991. Definitions. — The following words used in sections 389.991 to 389.995 shall mean:  (1) "Bridges", structures supporting the track or tracks over a waterway, highway, ravine or railroad;  (2) "Carrier", any common carrier by rail;  (3) "Division", the motor carrier and railroad safety division of the department of economic development;  (4) "Roadbed", culverts, tunnels, cuts and fills on which or through which the tracks are located;  (5) "Tracks", rails and fastenings, ties, crossings-at-grade, both railroad and highway, switches and their appurtenances but not including signal equipment. ­­-------- (L. 1971 H.B. 288 § 1)  CROSS REFERENCE:  Division of motor carrier and railroad safety abolished, duties and functions transferred to highways and transportation commission and department of transportation, 226.008
MO Rev Stat § 389.992 (2021)
2021 Missouri Revised Statutes|Title XXV - Incorporation and Regulation of Certain Utilities and Carriers|Chapter 389 - Regulation of Railroad Corporations|Section 389.992 - Division of motor carrier and railroad safety regulations.

Effective - 28 Aug 1988   389.992. Division of motor carrier and railroad safety regulations. — The division of motor carrier and railroad safety shall make and enforce reasonable rules and regulations establishing minimum standards of track, bridge and roadbed inspection:  (1) For track, bridge and roadbed used by passenger trains or freight trains;  (2) For the qualifications of the inspector;  (3) For the frequency of inspection and territory to be covered;  (4) For method of inspection, including items requiring special attention;  (5) Action to be taken when defects are found. ­­-------- (L. 1971 H.B. 288 § 2, A.L. 1988 S.B. 676)  CROSS REFERENCE:  Division of motor carrier and railroad safety abolished, duties and functions transferred to highways and transportation commission and department of transportation, 226.008