---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 240.223"
title: "49"
number: "240.223"
heading: "Criteria for the certificate."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/240.223"
---

# §240.223. Criteria for the certificate.

- (a) **As a minimum, each certificate issued in compliance with this part shall—**
  - (1) Identify the railroad or parent company that is issuing it;
  - (2) Indicate that the railroad, acting in conformity with this part, has determined that the person to whom it is being issued has been determined to be qualified to operate a locomotive;
  - (3) Identify the person to whom it is being issued (including the person's name, employee identification number, and either a physical description or photograph of the person);
  - (4) Identify any conditions or limitations, including the class of service or conditions to ameliorate vision or hearing acuity deficiencies, that restrict the person's operational authority;
  - (5) Show the effective date of each certification held;
  - (6) Be signed by a supervisor of locomotive engineers or other individual designated in accordance with [paragraph (b)](#b) of this section;
  - (7) Show the date of the person's last operational monitoring event as required by §§ [240.129(c)](/cfr/49/240.129.md?p=c) and [240.303(b)](/cfr/49/240.303.md?p=b), unless that information is reflected on supplementary documents which the locomotive engineer has in his or her possession when operating a locomotive; and
  - (8) **Be electronic or be of sufficiently small size to permit being carried in an ordinary pocket wallet.**
- (b) Each railroad to which this part applies shall designate in writing any person, other than a supervisor of locomotive engineers, that it authorizes to sign the certificates described in this section. The designation can identify such persons by name or job title.
- (c) Nothing in [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section shall prohibit any railroad from including additional information on the certificate or supplementing the certificate through other documents.
- (d) It shall be unlawful for any railroad to knowingly or any individual to willfully:
  - (1) Make, cause to be made, or participate in the making of a false entry on that certificate; or
  - (2) **Otherwise falsify that certificate through material misstatement, omission, or mutilation.**

## Notes

### Amendments

[56 FR 28254, June 19, 1991, as amended at 58 FR 19003, Apr. 9, 1993; 64 FR 60993, Nov. 8, 1999; 85 FR 81315, Dec. 15, 2020; 91 FR 22751, Apr. 28, 2026]

### 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 58 FR 19003, Apr. 9, 1993; 64 FR 60993, Nov. 8, 1999; 85 FR 81315, Dec. 15, 2020; 91 FR 22751, Apr. 28, 2026]