---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 242.207"
title: "49"
number: "242.207"
heading: "Certificate components."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/242.207"
---

# §242.207. Certificate components.

- (a) **At 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 eligible to perform as a conductor or as a passenger conductor;
  - (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 type 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 an individual designated in accordance with [paragraph (b)](#b) of this section; and
  - (7) **Be electronic or be of sufficiently small size to permit being carried in an ordinary pocket wallet.**
- (b) Each railroad shall designate in writing any person that it authorizes to sign the certificates described in this section. The designation shall 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

[76 FR 69841, Nov. 9, 2011, as amended at 91 FR 22761, Apr. 28, 2026]

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 20103, 20107, 20135, 20138, 20162, 20163, 21301, 21304, 21311; 28 U.S.C. 2461 note; and 49 CFR 1.89.

### Source

Source: 76 FR 69841, Nov. 9, 2011, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[76 FR 69841, Nov. 9, 2011, as amended at 91 FR 22761, Apr. 28, 2026]