92 STAT. 2460
PUBLIC LAW 95-574—NOV. 2, 1978
""Whenever the time on duty of an individual is broken or interrupted by any period of time off duty of less than eight consecutive hours, such individual may be on duty for not more than twelve hours during a twenty-four-hour period, if such individual has had at least eight consecutive hours off duty immediately before reporting for duty, or, where required by paragraph (1) of this subsection, at least ten consecutive hours off duty immediately before so reporting. After an individual has been on duty for a total of twelve hours during a period . .,, of twenty-four hours as permitted by the foregoing sentence, or at the end of such twenty-four-hour period, whichever ocxiurs first, such individual shall not be required or permitted to continue on duty or to go on duty until he has had at least eight consecutive hours off duty. For purposes of this subsection, a twenty-four-hour period shall begin when an individual reports for duty immediately after he has had at least eight consecutive hours off duty or, where required by paragraph (1) of this subsection, at least ten consecutive hours off duty.". (b) Section 3A(c) of the Hours of Service Act (45 U.S.C. 63a(c)) is amended to read as follows: "(c) For purposes of this section, time on duty shall commence when an individual reports for duty and terminate when an individual is finally released from duty, except that— "(1) time spent in travel on return from a trouble call, whether directly to the individual's residence or by way of the individual's headquarters, shall be considered neither time on duty nor time off duty, except that up to sixty minutes of such time on return from the final trouble call of a period of continuous or broken service shall be considered time off' duty; " (2) if, at the expiration of scheduled duty hours, an individual has not completed the trip from the final outlying worksite of the duty period to the individual's headquarters or from the final outlying worksite directly to the individual's residence, then the time spent in travel outside the scheduled duty hours which is required i, M, to complete the trip to such headquarters or directly to such " residence, as the case may be, shall be considered neither time on duty nor time off duty; " (3) if an individual is released from duty at an outlying worksite prior to the end of such individual's scheduled duty hours in order to comply with this section, the period of time required for the trip from the outlying worksite to the individual's headquarters, or the period of time required for the trip from the /'"^ outlying worksite direct to the individual's residence, as the case -^ may be, shall be considered neither time on duty nor time off duty; "(4) all time spent in transportation on an ontrack vehicle, including time referred to in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of this i , subsection, shall be considered time on duty; and "(5)(A) regularly scheduled meal periods and other release periods of thirty minutes or more up to sixty minutes shall be considered time off duty but shall not break an individual's continuity of service for purposes of this section, and (B) release periods of more than one hour shall be considered time off duty and shall break an individual's continuity of service for purposes of this section.". Effective date. (c) The amendments made by this section shall be effective as of 45 USC 63a note. July 8, 1976, except that no action or conduct which occurred during the period beginning on such date and ending on the date of enactment of this Act and which was lawful under the Hours of Service Act as in effect on July 8, 1976, shall be deemed to be unlawful under such Act as amended by this Act.
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