Missouri Laws 389.810 – Engines to be equipped with power drive wheel brakes
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 389.810
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- Recourse: An arrangement in which a bank retains, in form or in substance, any credit risk directly or indirectly associated with an asset it has sold (in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) that exceeds a pro rata share of the bank's claim on the asset. If a bank has no claim on an asset it has sold, then the retention of any credit risk is recourse. Source: FDIC
- State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020
From and after the first day of January, 1908, it shall be unlawful for any person, persons, partnership or corporation, operating any line of railroad, in whole or in part, within this state, either as owner, lessee or receiver, for the purpose of moving freight or passengers between points wholly within this state, to use upon such line of railroad any locomotive or engine to move such train of cars over such railroad without having such locomotive or engine equipped with power drive wheel brakes and fully and properly equipped with air brake appliances so that the engineer operating such locomotive or engine shall have the means of fully and completely controlling the air brakes on the cars attached to said locomotive and engine without recourse to hand brakes, except in cases of emergency.