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

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Date Published: 02/13/2024 09:00 PM
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill
No. 2463

Introduced by Assembly Member Alanis

February 13, 2024

An act to amend Section 7000 of the Labor Code, relating to railroad employees.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 2463, as introduced, Alanis. Railroad employee safety.
Existing law grants the Division of Occupational Safety and Health jurisdiction over the safety and health of railroad employees, as specified. Existing law authorizes a conductor to place a pusher engine ahead of the caboose, as defined, if conditions warrant it for the safety of the occupants of a caboose.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to provisions relating to the above-described authority of a conductor.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


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.

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(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.

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(c) This section applies only to main line movements of over five miles.

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(d) This section shall not prevent the use of an electric locomotive at the rear of any train.

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(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.