Chapter 169. To amend an Act entitled “An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their locomotives with safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto,” approved February seventeenth, nineteen hundred and elev
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CHAP. 169.— An Act To amend an Act entitled “An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their locomotives with safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto,” approved February seventeenth, nineteen hundred and eleven. March 4, 1915.[[H. R. 17894](/us/bill/63/hr/17894).][[Public, No. 318](/us/pl/63/318).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Common carriers.Requirements for safe locomotive boilers to include entire locomotive.Vol. 36, p. 913.
That section two of the Act entitled “An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their locomotives with safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto, ” approved February seventeenth, nine-teen hundred and eleven, shall apply to and include the entire locomotive and tender and all parts and appurtenances thereof. Sec. 2. Inspection extended. That the chief inspector and the two assistant chief inspectors, together with all the district inspectors, appointed under the Act of February seventeenth, nineteen hundred and eleven, shall inspect and shall have the same powers and duties with respect to all the parts and appurtenances of the locomotive and tender that they now have with respect to the boiler of a locomotive and the appurtenances thereof, and the said Act of February seventeenth, nineteen hundred and eleven, shall apply to and include the entire locomotive and tender and all their parts with the same force and effect as it now applies to locomotive boilers and their appurtenances.Examination of inspectors.
That upon the passage of this Act all inspectors and applicants for the position of inspector shall be examined touching their qualifications and fitness with respect to the additional duties imposed by this Act. Sec. 3. Safety appliance laws, etc., not altered. That nothing in this Act shall be held to alter, amend, change, repeal, or modify any other Act of Congress than the said Act of February seventeenth, nineteen hundred and eleven, to which reference is herein specifically made, or any order of the Interstate Commerce Commission promulgated under the safety appliance Act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and supplemental Acts.
Sec. 4. In effect in six months. That this Act shall take effect six months after its passage, except as otherwise herein provided. Approved, March 4, 1915.