---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 239.9"
title: "49"
number: "239.9"
heading: "Responsibility for compliance."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/239.9"
---

# §239.9. Responsibility for compliance.


Although the requirements of this part are stated in terms of the duty of a railroad, when any person, including a contractor to a railroad, performs any function required by this part, that person (whether or not a railroad) shall perform that function in accordance with this part.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 20102-20103, 20105-20114, 20133, 21301, 21304, and 21311; 28 U.S.C. 2461 note; and 49 CFR 1.89.

### Source

Source: 63 FR 24676, May 4, 1998, unless otherwise noted.