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legal/us/code/title-49/chapter-201/section-20144.md

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+type: "LegalText"
+title: "49 U.S.C. § 20144"
+description: "Blue signal protection for on-track vehicles"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 49
+title_name: "TRANSPORTATION"
+chapter_number: "201"
+chapter_name: "GENERAL"
+section: "20144"
+citation: "49 U.S.C. § 20144"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
+source: "official"
+source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc49@119-100.zip"
+source_identifier: "/us/usc/t49/s20144"
+source_file: "data/legal/raw/us/code/title-49/usc49.xml"
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+retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
+confidence: "official"
+tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
+---
+
+# 49 U.S.C. § 20144 - Blue signal protection for on-track vehicles
+
+## Text
+
+The Secretary of Transportation shall prescribe regulations applying blue signal protection to on-track vehicles where rest is provided.
+
+(Pub. L. 103–272, § 1(e), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 881.)
+
+## Notes
+
+Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 20144(uncodified).June 22, 1988, Pub. L. 100–342, § 19(c), 102 Stat. 638. The words “prescribe regulations” are substituted for “within one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, amend part 218 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations” because the regulations to carry out this section have been prescribed.