§ 3536 — Security from contractors; liability for wages

A railroad corporation shall require sufficient security from the contractors for the payment of labor performed in constructing the road by persons in their employ. Such corporation shall be liable to the day laborers employed by the contractors for labor actually performed on its road, if the person having such claim, within 40 days after the performance of the labor, shall notify in writing the engineer in charge of the section on which the labor was performed that he or she has not been paid by the contractors.