49 CFR § 218.21 - Scope.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t49/s218.21"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "49 CFR § 218.21 - Scope."
title_number: 49
title_name: "Transportation"
section_number: "218.21"
section_name: "Scope."
chapter_name: "FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION"
part_number: "218"
part_name: "RAILROAD OPERATING PRACTICES"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "49 U.S.C. 20103, 20107, 20131, 20138, 20144, 20168; 28 U.S.C. 2461 note; and 49 CFR 1.89."
regulatory_source: "44 FR 2175, Jan. 10, 1979, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "218"
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# 218.21 Scope.

This subpart prescribes minimum requirements for the protection of railroad employees engaged in the inspection, testing, repair, and servicing of rolling equipment whose activities require them to work on, under, or between such equipment and subjects them to the danger of personal injury posed by any movement of such equipment.