[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: 49CFR240.223]



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                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION

 

       CHAPTER II--FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF 

                             TRANSPORTATION

 

PART 240_QUALIFICATION AND CERTIFICATION OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS--Table 

of Contents

 

          Subpart C_Implementation of the Certification Process

 

Sec. 240.223  Criteria for the certificate.



    (a) As a minimum, each certificate issued in compliance with this 

part shall:

    (1) Identify the railroad or parent company that is issuing it;

    (2) Indicate that the railroad, acting in conformity with this part, 

has determined that the person to whom it is being issued has been 

determined to be qualified to operate a locomotive;

    (3) Identify the person to whom it is being issued (including the 

person's name, date of birth and employee identification number, and 

either a physical description or photograph of the person);

    (4) Identify any conditions or limitations, including the class of 

service or conditions to ameliorate vision or hearing acuity 

deficiencies, that restrict the person's operational authority;

    (5) Show the date of its issuance;

    (6) Be signed by a supervisor of locomotive engineers or other 

individual designated in accordance with paragraph (b) of this section;

    (7) Show the date of the person's last operational monitoring event 

as required by Sec. 240.129(c) and Sec. 240.303(b), unless that 

information is reflected on supplementary documents which the locomotive 

engineer has in his or her possession when operating a locomotive; and

    (8) Be of sufficiently small size to permit being carried in an 

ordinary pocket wallet.

    (b) Each railroad to which this part applies shall designate in 

writing any person, other than a supervisor of locomotive engineers, 

that it authorizes to sign the certificates described in this section. 

The designation can identify such persons by name or job title.

    (c) Nothing in paragraph (a) of this section shall prohibit any 

railroad from including additional information on the certificate or 

supplementing the certificate through other documents.

    (d) It shall be unlawful for any railroad to knowingly or any 

individual to willfully:

    (1) Make, cause to be made, or participate in the making of a false 

entry on that certificate; or

    (2) Otherwise falsify that certificate through material 

misstatement, omission, or mutilation.



[56 FR 28254, June 19, 1991, as amended at 58 FR 19003, Apr. 9, 1993; 64 

FR 60993, Nov. 8, 1999]