---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 240.1"
title: "49"
number: "240.1"
heading: "Purpose and scope."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/240.1"
---

# §240.1. Purpose and scope.

- (a) **The purpose of this part is to ensure that only qualified persons operate a locomotive or train.**
- (b) This part prescribes minimum Federal safety standards for the eligibility, training, testing, certification and monitoring of all locomotive engineers to whom it applies. This part does not restrict a railroad from adopting and enforcing additional or more stringent requirements not inconsistent with this part.
- (c) The locomotive engineer certification requirements prescribed in this part apply to any person who meets the definition of locomotive engineer contained in [§ 240.7](/cfr/49/240.7.md), regardless of the fact that the person may have a job classification title other than that of locomotive engineer.

## Notes

### Amendments

[56 FR 28254, June 19, 1991, as amended at 64 FR 60988, Nov. 8, 1999; 85 FR 81307, Dec. 15, 2020]

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 20103, 20107, 20135, 21301, 21304, 21311; 28 U.S.C. 2461 note; and 49 CFR 1.89.

### Source

Source: 56 FR 28254, June 19, 1991, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[56 FR 28254, June 19, 1991, as amended at 64 FR 60988, Nov. 8, 1999; 85 FR 81307, Dec. 15, 2020]