---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 840.1"
title: "49"
number: "840.1"
heading: "Applicability."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/840.1"
---

# §840.1. Applicability.


This part contains the Safety Board's accident notification requirements, and its authority for inspection, examination, and testing of physical evidence, and describes the exercise of the Safety Board's priority accorded to its activities when investigating railroad accidents.


## Notes

### Amendments

[47 FR 49408, Nov. 1, 1982]

### Authority

Authority: Sec. 304(a)(1)(c), Independent Safety Board Act of 1974, as amended (49 U.S.C. 1903).

### Amendments

[47 FR 49408, Nov. 1, 1982]