[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 49, Volume 4]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 49CFR228.5]



[Page 366-367]

 

                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION

 

       CHAPTER II--FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF 

                             TRANSPORTATION

 

PART 228_HOURS OF SERVICE OF RAILROAD EMPLOYEES--Table of Contents

 

                            Subpart A_General

 

Sec. 228.5  Definitions.



    As used in this part:

    (a) Administrator means the Administrator of the Federal Railroad 

Administrator or any person to whom he delegated authority in the matter 

concerned.

    (b) Carrier, common carrier, and common carrier engaged in 

interstate or foreign commerce by railroad mean railroad as that term is 

defined below.

    (c) Employee means an individual employed by the common carrier who 

(1) is actually engaged in or connected with the movement of any train, 

including a person who performs the duties of a hostler, (2) dispatches, 

reports, transmits, receives, or delivers orders pertaining to train 

movements by the use of telegraph, telephone, radio, or any other 

electrical or mechanical device, or (3) is engaged in installing, 

repairing or maintaining signal systems.

    (d) Railroad means all forms of non-highway ground transportation 

that run on rails or electromagnetic guideways, including (1) commuter 

or other short-haul rail passenger service in a metropolitan or suburban 

area, and (2)



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high speed ground transportation systems that connect metropolitan 

areas, without regard to whether they use new technologies not 

associated with traditional railroads. Such term does not include rapid 

transit operations within an urban area that are not connected to the 

general railroad system of transportation.



[54 FR 33229, Aug. 14, 1989]