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Ingested titles 12–51 and 54 from OLRC USLM XML @119-100 (the whole Code now, uniform edition; Title 53 is reserved/empty). LegalText 11,221 -> 59,740; repo total 105,704 records. Deterministic (byte-identical rerun, verified on Title 42's 8,356 sections); make check green. make legal-us-code default now covers every title. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "LegalText"
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title: "49 U.S.C. § 20148"
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description: "Railroad car visibility"
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jurisdiction: "us"
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corpus: "united_states_code"
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kind: "code_section"
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title_number: 49
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title_name: "TRANSPORTATION"
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chapter_number: "201"
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chapter_name: "GENERAL"
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section: "20148"
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citation: "49 U.S.C. § 20148"
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release_point: "119-100"
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release_date: "2026-06-26"
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source: "official"
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---
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# 49 U.S.C. § 20148 - Railroad car visibility
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## Text
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(a) Review of Rules.— The Secretary of Transportation shall conduct a review of the Department of Transportation’s rules with respect to railroad car visibility. As part of this review, the Secretary shall collect relevant data from operational experience by railroads having enhanced visibility measures in service.
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(b) Regulations.— If the review conducted under subsection (a) establishes that enhanced railroad car visibility would likely improve safety in a cost-effective manner, the Secretary shall initiate a rulemaking proceeding to prescribe regulations requiring enhanced visibility standards for newly manufactured and remanufactured railroad cars. In such proceeding the Secretary shall consider, at a minimum—
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(1) visibility of railroad cars from the perspective of nonrailroad traffic;
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(2) whether certain railroad car paint colors should be prohibited or required;
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(3) the use of reflective materials;
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(4) the visibility of lettering on railroad cars;
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(5) the effect of any enhanced visibility measures on the health and safety of train crew members; and
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(6) the cost/benefit ratio of any new regulations.
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(c) Exclusions.— In prescribing regulations under subsection (b), the Secretary may exclude from any specific visibility requirement any category of trains or railroad operations if the Secretary determines that such an exclusion is in the public interest and is consistent with railroad safety.
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(Added Pub. L. 103–440, title II, § 212(a), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4622.)
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