705.250 - Intoxication and other violations of duties; penalties.

705.250  Intoxication and other violations of duties; penalties.

      1.  Any person employed upon any railway as engineer, motorman, gripman, conductor, switch tender, fireman, bridge tender, flagger or signaler, or having charge of stations, starting, regulating or running trains upon a railway, who shall be intoxicated while engaged in the discharge of any such duties, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.

      2.  Every engineer, motorman, gripman, conductor, brakeman, switch tender, train dispatcher or other officer, agent or servant of any railway company, who shall be guilty of any willful violation or omission of his or her duty as such officer, agent or servant, by which human life or safety shall be endangered, for which no punishment is specially prescribed, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

      [Part 1911 C&P § 318; RL § 6583; NCL § 10266] + [1911 C&P § 320; RL § 6585; NCL § 10268]