§ 8-9-10-1 — Duty to provide; terminals; mobile camps for maintenance of way employees

(a) As used in this section, "mobile camp"
means a temporary location where at least two (2) railroad maintenance
of way employees are housed.
(b) Every railroad company within the state of Indiana shall provide
and adequately maintain a heated room or rooms at all terminals,
headquarters, and mobile camps in the operation of the railroad
company, for the use of its employees.
(c) Each room required by subsection (b) must contain adequate
wash basins, shower-baths, inside toilets, and sufficient lockers for
checking employees' clothing.
(d) Every railroad shall maintain at all permanent assembly points
and mobile camps a supply of drinking water dispensed in a sanitary
manner. A permanent assembly point under this chapter is a location
where a minimum of two (2) maintenance of way employees meet for
not less than six (6) months of each year.
(e) A railroad company that houses maintenance of way employees
in a mobile camp shall provide and adequately maintain for the
employees' use outfit cars, camp cars, or trailers in compliance with the
rules adopted under IC 16-19-3-4.4.
(f) A railroad company that houses maintenance of way employees
in a mobile camp shall:
(1) not later than two (2) business days after employees arrive at
that location, notify the local health department with jurisdiction
in the area in which the mobile camp is located of the existence
of the mobile camp; and
(2) request and permit inspection by an authorized representative
of the local health department to ensure the conditions of the
outfit cars, camp cars, or trailers are sanitary and healthful for the:
(A) maintenance of way employees; and
(B) local community.
(g) A railroad company shall locate and maintain a mobile camp
described in subsection (e) in a safe and healthy environment.
Formerly: Acts 1965, c.154, s.1. As amended by P.L.62-1984,
SEC.138; P.L.83-2007, SEC.1.