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House Amendment 1749

Amendment Text

PAG LIN
  1  1    Amend Senate File 515, as amended, passed, and
  1  2 reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
  1  3    #1.  Page 1, by inserting before line 1 the
  1  4 following:
  1  5    "Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  327F.8  CLOSE-CLEARANCE
  1  6 WARNING DEVICES.
  1  7    1.  A railroad company shall place a warning device
  1  8 at a location where the close-clearance between a
  1  9 railway owned by the railroad company and a building,
  1 10 machinery, trees, brush, or other object is such that
  1 11 the building, machinery, trees, brush, or other object
  1 12 physically impedes a person who is lawfully riding the
  1 13 side of the train in the course of the person's duties
  1 14 in service to the railroad company from clearing the
  1 15 building, machinery, trees, brush, or other object.
  1 16    2.  The warning device shall be placed in a
  1 17 location which provides adequate notice to a person
  1 18 riding the side of a train so that the person may
  1 19 prepare for the close-clearance.
  1 20    3.  Placement of a warning device pursuant to this
  1 21 section does not relieve a railroad company from any
  1 22 duties required under chapter 317 or section 327F.27.
  1 23    4.  A violation of this section is punishable as a
  1 24 schedule "one" penalty under section 327C.5."
  1 25    #2.  Title page, line 1, by inserting after the
  1 26 word "Act" the following:  "relating to railroads,
  1 27 by".
  1 28    #3.  Title page, line 2, by inserting after the
  1 29 word "utilities," the following:  "providing for
  1 30 certain warning devices,".
  1 31    #4.  By renumbering as necessary.  
  1 32 
  1 33 
  1 34                               
  1 35 T. TAYLOR of Linn 
  1 36 SF 515.303 79
  1 37 jj/cf
     

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