---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 236.557"
title: "49"
number: "236.557"
heading: "Receiver; location with respect to rail."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/236.557"
---

# §236.557. Receiver; location with respect to rail.

- (a) Receiver of intermittent inductive automatic train stop device of the inert roadway element type shall be maintained with bottom of the receiver at a height above the plane of the tops of the rails, and with its outer edge at a horizontal distance from the gage side of the nearest rail, in accordance with specifications of the carrier.
- (b) Receiver of continuous inductive automatic cab signal, train stop, or train control device of locomotive equipped with onboard test equipment, shall be maintained with the bottom of the receiver at a height above the plane of the tops of the rails, and with its outer edge at a horizontal distance from the gage side of the nearest rail, in accordance with specifications of the carrier.

## Notes

### Amendments

[49 FR 3387, Jan. 26, 1984]

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 20102-20103, 20107, 20133, 20141, 20157, 20301-20303, 20306, 20501-20505, 20701-20703, 21301-21302, 21304; 28 U.S.C. 2461 note; and 49 CFR 1.89.

### Source

Source: 33 FR 19684, Dec. 25, 1968, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[49 FR 3387, Jan. 26, 1984]