600.  As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise
indicates:
   (a) "Railroad" means any steam railroad, electric railroad, or
railway, operated in whole or in part in this State.
   (b) "Railroad corporation" means a corporation or receiver
operating a railroad.
   (c) "Trainman" means a conductor, motorman, engineer, fireman,
brakeman, train dispatcher, or telegraph operator, employed by or
working in connection with a railroad.



601.  No railroad corporation or any officer, agent or
representative of such corporation shall require or knowingly permit
any trainman to be on duty for a longer period than 12 consecutive
hours.


602.  Whenever any trainman has been continuously on duty for 12
hours he shall be relieved and not required or permitted again to go
on duty or perform any work for the railroad corporation until he has
had at least 10 consecutive hours off duty.



603.  No trainman who has been on duty 12 hours in the aggregate in
any 24-hour period shall be required or permitted to continue or
again go on duty without having had at least 8 consecutive hours off
duty.


604.  No person who by the use of the telegraph or telephone,
dispatches, reports, transmits, receives or delivers orders
pertaining to or affecting train movements shall be required or
permitted to be on duty for a longer period than nine hours in any
twenty-four hours, in towers, offices, places and stations
continuously operated night and day, nor for a longer period than
thirteen hours in towers, offices, places and stations operated only
during the daytime.  In case of emergency, however, the persons
referred to in this section may be permitted to be on duty for four
additional hours in a twenty-four hour period.  Such additional duty
shall not be required or permitted on more than three days in any
week.



605.  Any railroad corporation who violates any of the provisions of
this chapter is liable to the State in a penalty of not less than
$200 nor more than $1000 for each offense.  Such penalty shall be
recovered and suit therefor shall be brought in the name of the State
in a court of competent jurisdiction in any county into or through
which said railroad may pass.  Such suit may be brought either by the
Attorney General of the State or under his direction by the district
attorney of any county in the State into or through which said
railroad passes.


606.  Any officer, agent or representative of any railroad
corporation who violates any of the provisions of this chapter is
guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than one
hundred dollars ($100) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000)
for each offense, or confinement in the county jail for not less than
10 nor more than 60 days, or both.  Such person so offending may be
prosecuted under this section, either in the county where he is at
the time of commission of the offense, or in any county where such
employee has been permitted or required to work in violation of this
chapter.


607.  This chapter shall not apply in any case of casualty,
unavoidable accident, or act of God; nor where the delay was the
result of a cause not known to, and which could not have been
foreseen by, the railroad corporation, or its officer or agent in
charge of a trainman at the time the trainman left a terminal.  This
chapter shall not apply to the crews of wrecking, or relief trains.

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