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49 CFR 214.313

§ 214.313 Responsibility of individual roadway workers.

United States · 49 CFR — Transportation · Status: effective

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49 CFR 214.313, § 214.313 Responsibility of individual roadway workers, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/257979
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(a) Each roadway worker is responsible for following the on-track safety rules of the railroad upon which the roadway worker is located. (b) A roadway worker shall not foul a track except when necessary for the performance of duty. (c) Each roadway worker is responsible to ascertain that on-track safety is being provided before fouling a track. (d) Each roadway worker may refuse any directive to violate an on-track safety rule, and shall inform the employer in accordance with § 214.311 whenever the roadway worker makes a good faith determination that on-track safety provisions to be applied at the job location do not comply with the rules of the operating railroad.

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This is a federal regulation, adopted through agency rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act — not enacted by a recorded vote of Congress.