Sec. 1. (a) As used in this section, “mobile camp” means a temporary location where at least two (2) railroad maintenance of way employees are housed.

     (b) Every railroad company within the state of Indiana shall provide and adequately maintain a heated room or rooms at all terminals, headquarters, and mobile camps in the operation of the railroad company, for the use of its employees.

     (c) Each room required by subsection (b) must contain adequate wash basins, shower-baths, inside toilets, and sufficient lockers for checking employees’ clothing.

     (d) Every railroad shall maintain at all permanent assembly points and mobile camps a supply of drinking water dispensed in a sanitary manner. A permanent assembly point under this chapter is a location where a minimum of two (2) maintenance of way employees meet for not less than six (6) months of each year.

     (e) A railroad company that houses maintenance of way employees in a mobile camp shall provide and adequately maintain for the employees’ use outfit cars, camp cars, or trailers in compliance with the rules adopted under IC 16-19-3-4.4.

     (f) A railroad company that houses maintenance of way employees in a mobile camp shall:

(1) not later than two (2) business days after employees arrive at that location, notify the local health department with jurisdiction in the area in which the mobile camp is located of the existence of the mobile camp; and

(2) request and permit inspection by an authorized representative of the local health department to ensure the conditions of the outfit cars, camp cars, or trailers are sanitary and healthful for the:

(A) maintenance of way employees; and

(B) local community.

     (g) A railroad company shall locate and maintain a mobile camp described in subsection (e) in a safe and healthy environment.

Formerly: Acts 1965, c.154, s.1. As amended by P.L.62-1984, SEC.138; P.L.83-2007, SEC.1.

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