Surface Transportation (safety Legislation) Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Eighty-fifth Congress, First Session, on Bills to Provide for Greater Safety in Surface Transportation ... |
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Page 4 - An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes, and their locomotives with driving-wheel brakes, and for other purposes...
Page 201 - Commission shall prepare rules, standards, and instructions for the installation, inspection, maintenance, and repair of such...
Page 11 - ... shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars for each and every such violation, to be recovered in a suit or suits to be brought by the United States district attorney in the district court of the United States having jurisdiction in the locality where such violation shall have been committed...
Page 6 - person" means any individual, firm, co-partnership, corporation, company, association, or joint-stock association ; and includes any trustee, receiver, assignee, or personal representative thereof.
Page 102 - Act say, the Commission is hereby authorized to investigate and report- on the need for Federal regulation of the sizes and weight of motor vehicles...
Page 8 - No person shall be excused from complying with any requirements under this paragraph because of his privilege against self-incrimination, but the immunity provisions of the Compulsory Testimony Act of February 11, 1893 (USC, title 49, sec. 46), shall apply with respect to any individual who specifically claims such privilege.
Page 93 - The opportunity of presenting the views of the American Farm Bureau Federation with respect to proposals to authorize grants for mass transportation is appreciated.
Page 25 - The statute punishes only those who knowingly violate the Regulation. This requirement of the presence of culpable intent as a necessary element of the offense does much to destroy any force in the argument that application of the Regulation would be so unfair that it must be held invalid.
Page 53 - Commission may utilize the services of the bureau for the safe transportation of explosives and other dangerous articles...
Page 102 - Commission is hereby authorized to investigate and report on the need for Federal regulation of the sizes and weight of motor vehicles and combinations of motor vehicles and of the qualifications and maximum hours of service of employees of all motor carriers and private carriers of property by motor vehicle ; and in such investigation the Commission shall avail itself of the assistance of all departments or bureaus of the Government and of any organization of motor carriers having special knowledge...