§ 8-3-1-21 — Accident reports; facilities maintenance

Indiana § 8-3-1-21

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Art. 3: RAILROADS GENERALLY
• Ch. 1: Railroad Regulation─Department of Transportation

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(a) Every railroad company subject to this
chapter shall report to the department as soon as possible after it has
occurred, every accident and the general cause thereof, involving loss
of life or serious injury to passenger or employee.
(b) Whenever the department shall secure reliable information, or
complaint shall have been made, or, because of reports made by its
inspectors, shall have reason to believe, that any carrier in this state
does not provide and adequately maintain sanitary drinking water and
sanitary dispensers therefor on all locomotives and cabooses in use, or
that any such carrier does not provide a room or rooms at all terminals,
for the use of the department's employees, containing adequate wash
basins, shower baths, inside toilets, sanitary drinking water dispensed
in a sanitary manner, and sufficient lockers for checking employees'
clothing, it shall be the duty of the department to cause such
investigation to be made as it may deem necessary, and when such
investigation shall have been made, the department shall make a report
to the manager or superintendent of the railroad company. In said
report and recommendations, the department shall make an accurate
statement of the time such examination was made, of the exact
location, character, and extent of such defects or omissions, if any such
shall have been found, and shall also recommend such reasonable
changes and improvements, additions, buildings, and accommodations,
as are, in the opinion of the department, necessary to remedy such
faults, neglects, requirements, or defects. Such recommendations shall
set out specifically a reasonable time within which such improvements
or changes or additions shall be made by the railroad company, and if
they are not so made within said time so specified, then the department,
if it considers it best so to do, may commence proceedings by
mandamus or other remedy, in some circuit or superior court having
jurisdiction of the carriers, to enforce compliance with its order. All
courts, circuit, superior, appellate, or supreme, as shall obtain
jurisdiction in these cases, shall give preference to such cases, and shall
hear and determine the same speedily to the end that the employees'
interests and the public interests may not suffer.
Formerly: Acts 1905, c.53, s.23; Acts 1907, c.241, s.19; Acts
1911, c.76, s.1; Acts 1933, c.58, s.1; Acts 1949, c.9, s.1. As amended
by P.L.12-1984, SEC.2; P.L.384-1987(ss), SEC.29; P.L.50-2011,
SEC.2.