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MARVIN MANDEL, Governor
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SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1977.
Approved May 17, 1977.
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CHAPTER 562
(House Bill 1494)
AN ACT concerning
Public Service Commission —
Railroad Employees' Health and Safety
FOR the purpose of authorizing the Public Service
Commission or its authorized agent to immediately
close certain sidetrack or switch connections if
they constitute a danger to the health or safety of
any railroad employee.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article 78 — Public Service Commission Law
Section 38
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1975 Replacement Volume and 1976 Supplement)
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section 38 of Article 78 - Public Service
Commission Law, of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1975
Replacement Volume and 1976 Supplement) be and it is
hereby repealed and reenacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:
Article 78 — Public Service Commission Law
38.
(A) Upon the application of any shipper, every
railroad company shall construct, maintain and operate on
reasonable terms a switch connection or connections with
a lateral line of railroad or private sidetrack owned by
such shipper, or provide upon its own property a
sidetrack and switch connection for such shipper,
whenever the switch connection or the sidetrack and
switch connection are safe to install, reasonably
practicable and justified by the volume of business
therefor. Installation, maintenance, and compensation
shall be subject to regulation by the Commission. Such
connections may be discontinued if the Commission finds
that the above conditions justifying them have ceased.
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