Chapter 866. Requiring common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to make full reports of all accidents to the Interstate Commerce Commission
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CHAP. 866.— An Act Requiring common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to make full reports of all accidents to the Interstate Commerce Commission. March 3, 1901. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Common carriers to report accidents to Interstate Commerce Commission. It shall be the duty of the general manager, superintendent, or other proper officer of every common carrier engaged in interstate commerce by railroad to make to the Interstate Commerce Commission, at its office in Washington, District of Columbia, a monthly report, under oath, of all collisions of trains or where any train or part of a train accidentally leaves the track, and of all accidents which may occur to its passengers or employees while in the service of such common carrier and actually on duty, which report shall state the nature and causes thereof, and the circumstances connected therewith.
Sec. 2. Penalty. That any common carrier failing to make such report within thirty days after the end of any month shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof by a court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars for each and every offense and for every day during which it shall fail to make such report after the time herein specified for making the same. Sec. 3. Report inadmissible as evidence. That neither said report nor any part thereof shall be admitted as evidence or used for any purpose against such railroad so making such report in any suit or action for damages growing out of any matter mentioned in said report.
Sec. 4. Form of reports. That the Interstate Commerce Commission is authorized to prescribe for such common carriers a method and form for making the reports in the foregoing section provided. Approved, March 3, 1901.