Missouri Revised Statutes













Chapter 389

Regulation of Railroad Corporations

←389.830

Section 389.840.1

389.850→

August 28, 2015

Cars to be equipped with air or power brakes.

389.840. From and after the first day of January, 1908, it shall be

unlawful for any person, persons, company or corporation, operating any line

of railroad, in whole or in part, in this state, either as owner, lessee or

receiver, to operate any train of cars over such line of railroad between

stations within this state, unless at least seventy-five percent of the cars

composing such train shall be equipped with air or power brakes, and any of

the remaining twenty-five percent of such cars composing such train shall be

so equipped with such air or power brakes; they shall be so associated and

connected that brakes thereon can be used, managed and operated by the

engineer of the locomotive drawing such train.



(RSMo 1939 § 5238)



Prior revisions: 1929 § 4781; 1919 § 9969; 1909 § 3168







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