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Title 45 — Railroads

Chapter 2 — Liability for Injuries to Employees

§ 58. Duty or liability of common carriers and rights of employees under other acts not impaired

Statutory text

Nothing in this chapter shall be held to limit the duty or liability of common carriers or to impair the rights of their employees under any other Act or Acts of Congress.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 60–149 § 8 · 35 Stat. 65

    Enacted · 45 U.S.C. § 58

    (Apr. 22, 1908, ch. 149, § 8, 35 Stat. 66.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Apr. 22, 1908, ch. 149, § 8, 35 Stat. 66.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 8. That nothing in this Act shall be held to limit the duty or Prior laws not affected. liability of common carriers or to impair the rights of their employees under any other Act or Acts of Congress, or to affect the prosecution of any pending proceeding or right of action under the Act of Congress Vol. 34, p. 232. entitled “An Act relating to liability of common carriers in the District of Columbia and Territories, and to common carriers engaged in commerce between the States and between the States and foreign nations to their employees,” approved June eleventh, nineteen hundred and six.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Apr. 22, 1908, ch. 149, § 8, 35 Stat. 66.)

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