---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 207.3"
title: "49"
number: "207.3"
heading: "Designation and commissioning."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/207.3"
---

# §207.3. Designation and commissioning.

- (a) A railroad may designate employees to be commissioned by a state authority as railroad police officers to serve in the states in which the railroad owns property.
- (b) Except as provided by [§ 207.6](/cfr/49/207.6.md), the designated railroad police officer shall be commissioned by the railroad police officer's state of legal residence or the railroad police officer's state of primary employment.

## Notes

### Amendments

[59 FR 6587, Feb. 11, 1994, as amended at 81 FR 88132, Dec. 7, 2016]

### Authority

Authority: 45 U.S.C. 446; 49 CFR 1.49(ff).

### Source

Source: 59 FR 6587, Feb. 11, 1994, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[59 FR 6587, Feb. 11, 1994, as amended at 81 FR 88132, Dec. 7, 2016]