Safety Appliances, Hearings Before Subcommittee ... on H.R. 10485 and 9047, June 22, 1916 |
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act the clearance ALBEN W apply to electric apply to inter apply to interurban bill apply Boston Elevated Railway BRADY city cars clearance than provided COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE common carrier conductor in collecting DECKER DEWALT reading double track electric railroads electric railways emergency crew FITZPATRICK footboard freight go on top HOWARD SUTHERLAND Indiana INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN Interstate Commerce Commission interurban cars interurban lines interurban railroads killed and 106 less clearance locomotive engine motorman moved or hauled obstructions obviate open cars operate partly operated by electricity operated by steam operation thereof overcomes that objection overhead clearance partly by electricity ployees Provided further provisions rail railroads operated RAYBURN redraft RICHARD WAYNE PARKER safe clearance SAM RAYBURN seen that draft steam railroads STERLING street cars street railways subcommittee THETUS W top and engaged train tricity trolley pole Union Traction United vehicle where trainmen viaducts and tunnels violation WEADOCK
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Page 4 - railroad" as used in this Act shall include all bridges and ferries used or operated in connection with any railroad, and also all the road in use by any corporation operating a railroad, whether owned or operated under a contract. agreement, or lease ; and the term "transportation" shall include all instrumentalities of shipment or carriage.
Page 5 - States having jurisdiction in the locality where such violation shall have been committed ; and it shall be the duty of such district attorney to bring such suits upon duly verified information being lodged with him of such violation having occurred.
Page 5 - That it shall be the duty of the Interstate Commerce Commission to enforce the provisions of this Act, and all powers heretofore granted to said Commission are hereby extended to it for the purpose of the enforcement of this Act. SEC. 5. That the term "common carrier...
Page 5 - ... shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars for each and every such violation, to be recovered in a suit or suits to be brought by the United States district attorney in the district court of the United States having jurisdiction in the locality where such violation shall have been committed...
Page 4 - Columbia or any Territory of the United States, or from one State or Territory of the United States or the District of Columbia to any other State or Territory of the United States or the District of Columbia, or from any place...
Page 5 - ... any of the provisions of this act shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars for each and every such violation, to be recovered in a suit or suits to be brought by the State's Attorney in the Circuit Court of the county having jurisdiction in the locality where such violation shall have occurred...
Page 5 - ... the standards of equipment to be used on all cars subject to the provisions of this Act, unless changed by an order of said Interstate Commerce Commission, to be made after full hearing and for good cause shown; and failure to comply with any such requirement of the Interstate Commerce Commission shall be subject to a like penalty as failure to comply with any requirement of this Act...
Page 5 - That the Interstate Commerce Commission may from time to time upon full hearing and for good cause extend the period within which any common carrier shall comply with the provisions of this act.
Page 4 - Territory, or from any place in the United States to an adjacent foreign country, or from any place in the United States...