Legislative Session number- 85

Bill Name: SF1534

1E "Railroad Walkways Safety Act"; authorizing the commissioner of
transportation (DOT) to assess common carriers, administer the state rail
safety inspection account and perform other duties on behalf of the state rail
safety inspector; requiring the commissioner to establish the position of state
rail safety inspector in the office of freight and commercial vehicle
operations; requiring the state rail safety inspector to inspect mainline and
secondary track and industry track, railroad right of way, including adjacent or
intersecting drainage, culverts, bridges, overhead structures, traffic,
crossings, yards, physical plants, to review and enforce safety requirements and
railroad security measures and issue citations for violations; requiring the
commissioner to annually assess certain railroad companies start-up or
reestablishment costs and related costs of initiating the state rail safety
inspector program, exemptions; requiring the commissioner to adopt by a rule a
schedule of administrative penalties for safety violations; defining certain
terms; requiring railroad companies to construct and maintain adjacent to at
least one side of the tracks walkways on all newly constructed or reconstructed
bridges and trestles, specifying walkway standards; providing for walkway
exemptions; civil liability provision
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