§ 36-9-3-22 — Application of federal statutes to employees affected by actions of authority

(a) The rights, benefits, and other employee
protective conditions and remedies that:
(1) are set forth in Section 13(c) of the Urban Mass
Transportation Act of 1964, as amended (49 U.S.C. section
1609(c)) and Section 405(b) of the Rail Passenger Service Act of
1970, as amended (45 U.S.C. section 565(b)); and
(2) are prescribed by the United States secretary of labor under
those statutes;
apply to employees of the authority and employees of any public
transportation agency affected by actions of the authority, including the
acquisition and operation of public transportation facilities, the
execution of purchase of service agreements with a public
transportation agency, the coordination, reorganization, combining,
leasing, or merging of operations or the expansion or curtailment of
public transportation service or facilities under this chapter.
(b) The authority may take any of the actions specified in subsection
(a) only after meeting the requirements of this chapter. In addition,
whenever the authority operates the public transportation facilities of
a public transportation agency engaged as of April 25, 1975, in the
transportation of persons by railroad, it may do so only in a manner that
insures the continued applicability to the affected railroad employees
of the federal statutes applicable on that date to them and the
continuation of their collective bargaining agreements until those
agreements can be renegotiated by representatives of the authority and
the representatives of those employees designated under the Railway
Labor Act, as amended (45 U.S.C. sections 151-188).
[Pre-Local Government Recodification Citations:
19-5-2.5-18 part; 19-5-2.5-22.]
As added by Acts 1981, P.L.309, SEC.76. Amended by
P.L.235-1997, SEC.13.