Railroad Sanitation Act (610 ILCS 85/)

Chapter 610 — Railroads

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Sec. 0.01. Short title

This Act may be cited as the Railroad Sanitation Act.

(Source: P.A. 86-1324.)

Sec. 1.

No owner or operator of a railroad shall permit any railroad car to be dispatched for the transportation of or occupation by passengers unless such cars is in a clean and sanitary condition and is free from cockroaches, body lice, bedbugs and other vermin.

(Source: Laws 1949, p. 1243.)

Sec. 2.

Owners and operators of railroads shall require railroad cars used for the transportation of or occupation by passengers to be regularly cleaned and inspected and to be fumigated or otherwise treated to free them from cockroaches, body lice, bedbugs and other vermin.

(Source: Laws 1949, p. 1243.)

Sec. 3.

Whoever violates this Act shall be guilty of a petty offense. The use of any car for the transportation of or occupation by passengers when the car is not in a clean and sanitary condition or is not free from cockroaches, body lice, bedbugs and other vermin is a separate offense for each day such car is so used.

(Source: P.A. 77-2199.)

Sec. 4.

The Illinois Commerce Commission shall enforce this Act and may make such inspections as it deems necessary therefor.

(Source: Laws 1949, p. 1243.)