49 C.F.R. § 234.273

Results of inspections and tests

Read at: eCFRecfr.gov CornellLII GovInfogovinfo.gov CasesGoogle Scholar

(a) Results of inspections and tests made in compliance with this part shall be recorded on forms provided by the railroad, or by electronic means, subject to approval by the Associate Administrator for Safety. Each record shall show the name of the railroad, AAR/DOT inventory number, place and date, equipment tested, results of tests, repairs, replacements, adjustments made, and condition in which the apparatus was left.

(b) Each record shall be signed or electronically coded by the employee making the test and shall be filed in the office of a supervisory official having jurisdiction. Records required to be kept shall be made available to FRA as provided by 49 U.S.C. 20107 (formerly § 208 of the Federal Railroad Safety Act of 1970 (45 U.S.C. 437)).

(c) Each record shall be retained until the next record for that test is filed but in no case for less than one year from the date of the test.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases, 2003–2012 · leading case: King v. Illinois Cent. R.R., 337 F.3d 550 (5th Cir. 2003).

Sort: Relevance Newest Treatment

King v. Illinois Cent. R.R., 337 F.3d 550 (5th Cir. 2003). “49 C.F.R. § 234.273 . In accordance with this regulation, ICR keeps these records for one year.”

Nunez v. BNSF Ry. Co., 936 F. Supp. 2d 969 (C.D. Ill. 2012). “49 C.F.R. 234.273. There is no requirement that a railroad keep records for any longer period of time when there has been an accident: The criticism is without legal significance.”

Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.