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<p style="-uslm-lc:I11" class="indent0">The Secretary of Transportation shall prescribe regulations and issue orders that may be necessary to require that when railroad carrier employees (except train or yard crews) assigned to inspect, test, repair, or service rolling equipment have to work on, under, or between that equipment, every manually operated switch, including each crossover switch, providing access to the track on which the equipment is located is lined against movement to that track and secured by an effective locking device that can be removed only by the class or craft of employees performing the inspection, testing, repair, or service.</p>
</content><sourceCredit id="id34eb3a46-ec39-11e5-b01e-e2270cb35279">(<ref href="/us/pl/103/272">Pub. L. 103–272</ref>, § 1(e), <date date="1994-07-05">July 5, 1994</date>, <ref href="/us/stat/108/872">108 Stat. 872</ref>.)</sourceCredit>
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<p style=""><span style="font-variant:small-caps">Historical and Revision Notes</span></p></th>
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<th style="min-width: 44.0pt; text-align:center; vertical-align:middle; border-right:1px solid black;"><p style=" text-align:center; margin-bottom:0em;"><i>Revised</i></p><p style=" text-align:center; margin-top:0em;"><i>Section</i></p></th><th style="width:68.0pt ; max-width:68.0pt; text-align:center; vertical-align:middle; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black;"><p style=" text-align:center;"><i>Source (U.S. Code)</i></p></th><th style="width:94.0pt ; max-width:94.0pt; text-align:center; vertical-align:middle; border-left:1px solid black;"><p style=" text-align:center;"><i>Source (Statutes at Large)</i></p></th></tr>
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<tr style="border-top:1px solid black; -uslm-lc:I01;"><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; padding-right:2pt;"><p style=" text-align:left; text-indent: -1em; padding-left:1em;" class="leaders"><span>20131</span></p></td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black; padding-right:2pt; padding-left: 2pt;"><p style=" text-align:left; text-indent: -1em; padding-left:1em;">45:431(g) (1st sentence cl. (1)).</p></td><td style=" text-align:left; vertical-align:top; border-left:1px solid black; padding-left: 2pt;"><p style=" text-align:left; text-indent: -1em; padding-left:1em;"><span class="date">Oct. 16, 1970</span>, <a href="/us/pl/91/458">Pub. L. 91–458</a>, <a href="/us/stat/84/971">84 Stat. 971</a>, § 202(g) (1st sentence cl. (1)); added <span class="date">July 8, 1976</span>, <a href="/us/pl/94/348">Pub. L. 94–348</a>, § 5(b), <a href="/us/stat/90/820">90 Stat. 820</a>.</p></td></tr>
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<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">The words “within 180 days after <date date="1976-07-08">July 8, 1976</date>” are omitted as expired.</p>
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