49 CFR § 239.9 - Responsibility for compliance.

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title: "49 CFR § 239.9 - Responsibility for compliance."
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title_name: "Transportation"
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section_name: "Responsibility for compliance."
chapter_name: "FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION"
part_number: "239"
part_name: "PASSENGER TRAIN EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS"
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regulatory_source: "63 FR 24676, May 4, 1998, unless otherwise noted."
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# 239.9 Responsibility for compliance.

Although the requirements of this part are stated in terms of the duty of a railroad, when any person, including a contractor to a railroad, performs any function required by this part, that person (whether or not a railroad) shall perform that function in accordance with this part.