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221.0255.8

Statute ID: 15430

Statute Function ID: 33070

Railroad Motor Carrier - Hours of Service

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Statute Number:

221.0255.8

Enactment Date:

May 21, 2014

Effective Date:

Aug 1, 2014

Expiration Date:

Repealed?:

Summary Text:

Railroad Motor Carrier - Hours of Service

Statute ID:

15430

Created:

Jul 21, 2014 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us

Updated:

Jul 21, 2014 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us

Last Update Action:

Added

Legal Analyst Comment:

2014 c 300 s 2, Incomplete

Summary Text:

Railroad Motor Carrier - Hours of Service

Link to MN Statute Text:

https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/221/0255.html

Legislative Session:

2014 - Regular

Session Law Text?:

Statute text last updated on:

Jul 21, 2014

(a) A motor carrier of railroad employees shall not allow or require a driver to drive or remain on duty for more than: ten hours after eight consecutive hours off duty; 15 hours of combined on-duty time and drive time since last obtaining eight consecutive hours of off-duty time; or 70 hours of on-duty and drive time in any period of eight consecutive days. After 24 hours off duty, a driver begins a new seven consecutive day period and on-duty time is reset to zero.

(b) An operator who encounters an emergency and cannot, because of that emergency, safely complete a transportation assignment within the ten-hour maximum driving time permitted under paragraph(a), may drive for not more than two additional hours in order to complete that transportation assignment or to reach a place offering safety for the occupants of the vehicle and security for the transport motor vehicle, if the transportation assignment reasonably could have been completed within the ten-hour period absent the emergency.

(c) A carrier shall maintain and retain for a period of six months accurate time records that show the time the driver reports for duty each day,underline end the total number of hours of on-duty time for each driver for each day, the time the driver is released from duty each daystrikeout begin, and the total number of hours driven each day.