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AB-2463 Railroad employee safety.(2023-2024)



As Amends the Law Today


SECTION 1.

 Section 7000 of the Labor Code is amended to read:

7000.
 (a)  As used in this section section,  “caboose” means a caboose forming a part of a train and occupied by employees or caretakers, or both.
(b)  If conditions warrant it for the safety of the occupants of a caboose caboose,  the conductor, in using a pusher engine, may place it ahead of the caboose.
(c)  This section applies only to main line movements of over five miles.
(d)  This section shall not prevent the use of an electric locomotive at the rear of any train.
(e)  This section shall not apply in any case of casualty, unavoidable accident, or act of God; nor under circumstances which that  are the result of a cause not known to, and which that  could not have been foreseen by, the railroad corporation, or its officer or agent in charge of a train. This section shall not apply to the operation of wrecking, or relief trains.