Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-62 - Railroad companies-Operations › Part 1 - GENERAL AND PROCEDURAL RULES › Section 480-62-125 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter
				  unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
"Class I railroad company"
means a railroad
				  company having annual operating revenues of $250,000,000 or more;
"Class II railroad company"
means a railroad
				  company having annual operating revenue of less than $250,000,000, but more
				  than $20,000,000; and
"Class III railroad company"
means a railroad
				  company having annual operating revenues of $20,000,000 or less.
"Commission"
means the Washington utilities and
				  transportation commission.
"Contract crew transportation company"
means any
				  person, organization, company or other entity that operates one or more
				  contract crew transportation vehicles.
"Contract crew transportation vehicle"
means
				  every motor vehicle designed to transport 15 or fewer passengers, including the
				  driver, that is owned, leased, operated, or maintained by a person contracting
				  with a railroad company or its agents, contractors, subcontractors, vendors,
				  subvendors, secondary vendors, or subcarriers and used primarily to provide
				  railroad crew transportation.
"Department of labor and industries"
means the
				  Washington state department of labor and industries.
"Department of transportation"
means the
				  Washington state department of transportation.
"On track equipment"
means self-propelled
				  equipment, other than locomotives, that can be operated on railroad
				  tracks.
"Passenger carrying vehicle"
means those buses,
				  vans, trucks, and cars owned, operated, and maintained by a railroad company
				  primarily used to transport railroad employees, other than in the cab of such
				  vehicles, and are designed primarily for operation on roads which may or may
				  not be equipped with retractable flanged wheels for operation on railroad
				  tracks.
"Railroad"
means every permanent road with a
				  line of rails fixed to ties providing a track for cars or equipment drawn by
				  locomotives or operated by any type of power, including interurban and suburban
				  electric railroads, for the public use of conveying persons or property for
				  hire, with all bridges, ferries, tunnels, equipment, switches, spurs, sidings,
				  tracks, stations, and terminal facilities of every kind, used, operated,
				  controlled, managed, or owned by or in connection therewith. Unless otherwise
				  provided by rule, the term "railroad" does not include logging and industrial
				  railroads, or street railways operating within the limits of any incorporated
				  city or town.
"Railroad company"
means every corporation,
				  company, partnership, association, joint stock association, or person, their
				  lessees, trustees, or receivers appointed by any court, and any common carrier
				  owning, operating, controlling or managing any railroad or any cars or other
				  equipment used on, or in connection with the railroad within this state.
"Railroad police officer"
means a peace officer
				  who is commissioned in his or her state of legal residence or state of
				  employment by a railroad company to enforce state laws for the protection of
				  railroad property, personnel, passengers and/or cargo.
"Remote-control area"
means any place
				  remote-control operations are conducted on a railroad.
"Remote-control operations"
means control of the
				  movement of locomotives through the use of radio transmitter and receiver
				  systems by persons not physically located at the controls within the confines
				  of a locomotive cab.
"Remote-control zone"
means a designated
				  restricted access area in which remote-control operations may occur under
				  alternative point protection procedures.
"State"
means the state of
				  Washington.
Statutory Authority:
					 RCW
					 80.01.040 and
					 80.04.160. 04-11-023 (Docket No.
					 TR-021465, General Order No. R-514), § 480-62-125, filed 5/11/04,
					 effective 6/11/04. Statutory Authority:
					 RCW
					 80.01.040,
					 81.04.160,
					 81.24.010,
					 81.28.010,
					 81.28.290,
					 81.40.110,
					 81.44.010,
					 81.44.020, 81.44.101-81.44.105,
					 and chapters 81.48,
					 81.53, 81.54,
					 81.60, and 81.61 RCW. 01-04-026
					 (Docket No. TR-981102, General Order No. R-477), § 480-62-125, filed
					 1/30/01, effective 3/2/01.