PURPOSE: This rule requires all fixed guideway transit systems operating within Missouri to provide a telephone so that those employees controlling the movement of trains may be contacted by appropriate emergency response agencies in case of emergency.

1. (1) Every fixed guideway transit system operating within Missouri shall install and maintain a telephone twenty-four (24) hours a day in the office of the chief train controller. The transit system shall use this telephone only for the purpose of receiving emergency communications. The required telephone shall be a direct dial number and not connected through a private switchboard exchange requiring the use of a third party.

2. (2) The transit system shall provide the division and all appropriate emergency response agencies with the following:

   1. (A) The telephone number;
   2. (B) Location of the telephone; and
   3. (C) Notice of any change to the telephone or location to be given not less than ten (10) days prior to the change.

AUTHORITY: section 622.027, RSMo 1986.* Original rule filed Nov. 4, 1992, effective June 7, 1993.

*Original authority: 622.027, RSMo 1985, amended 1993, 1995.