To enact section 3733.60 of the Revised Code to require railroad companies to maintain certain meeting, housing, and food service facilities according to certain specifications.

Section 1. That section 3733.60 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:

Sec. 3733.60.  (A) As used in this section:

(1) "Mobile camp" means a temporary location where maintenance of way employees or contractors are housed in camp cars, bunk cars, sleeping cars, outfit cars, or trailers.

(2) "Maintenance of way employee or contractor" means a person who is employed or contracted to maintain railroad rights-of-way.

(3) "Permanent assembly point" means a location where maintenance of way employees or contractors meet for work at the beginning and end of each work day.

(4) "Board of health" means a board of health of a city or general health district or the authority having the duties of a board of health under section 3709.05 of the Revised Code.

(B) Any railroad company that operates in this state shall provide and adequately maintain for the use of its employees and contractors at least one heated room at all terminals and headquarters located in this state that are operated by that railroad company. Each room shall contain all of the following:

(1) At least one washbasin, with the number determined by the director of health to be adequate;

(2) At least one shower or bath;

(3) At least one indoor toilet;

(4) Sufficient lockers to store the employees' and contractors' clothing.

(C) Any railroad company that operates in this state shall maintain at all permanent assembly points located in this state a supply of drinking water that is determined by the director of health to be sufficient for all employees and contractors and that is dispensed in a sanitary manner.

(D) Any railroad company that houses maintenance of way employees or contractors in a mobile camp in this state shall maintain the mobile camp in a safe and healthy environment and shall provide and adequately maintain that mobile camp with all of the following:

(1) Heat and air conditioning in each car or trailer;

(2) Washbasins, showers, and indoor toilets determined by the director of health to be adequate in number;

(3) Lockers for the clothing and personal belongings of maintenance of way employees and contractors, determined by the director of health to be adequate in number;

(4) A supply of potable water dispensed in a sanitary manner for drinking, bathing, cooking, and cleaning cooking utensils that is determined by the director of health to be adequate;

(5) Minimum floor space of eighty square feet per occupant using single beds with a maximum of four occupants per car.

(E) Any railroad company that houses maintenance of way employees or contractors in this state shall install and permanently wire, with battery backup, an emergency alert weather radio, a smoke detector, and a carbon monoxide detector in each car and shall post in each car emergency evacuation instructions specific to the housing location and emergency medical instructions that include the location of the closest medical facility.

(F)(1) Any railroad company that houses maintenance of way employees or contractors in mobile camps in this state shall notify the board of health with jurisdiction in the area where the mobile camp is located of the existence of the mobile camp within two business days after the employees or contractors arrive at the mobile camp. In addition, the railroad company shall request and permit inspection of the camp and the cars by an authorized representative of the board of health to ensure that the camp and cars are sanitary and healthful for the maintenance of way employees and contractors and for the local community.

(2) Prior to any inspection, the railroad company shall pay to the board of health the fee prescribed by division (L)(3) of this section. The board of health shall deposit the fee in the district health fund of the board of health.

(3) Any railroad company that houses maintenance of way employees or contractors in mobile camps in this state shall immediately notify the board of health with jurisdiction in the area where the mobile camp is located in the event of an outbreak or report of any serious communicable and contagious disease, sickness, or illness of an employee or contractor or of the release of any hazardous material or substance occurring within the camp.

(G) Notwithstanding section 3717.42 of the Revised Code, no railroad company shall operate any commissary car or cook car, alone or in conjunction with a mobile camp, for the preparation and service of food for maintenance of way employees or contractors, without a mobile food service operation license issued under section 3717.43 of the Revised Code.

(H) No railroad company shall fail to comply with this section.

(I) The director of transportation may investigate any railroad company that allegedly has violated this section. If after the investigation, the director of transportation determines that reasonable evidence exists that a railroad company has violated this section, within seven days after that determination, the director of transportation shall send written notice to the railroad company and the company's maintenance of way employees and contractors in the same manner as prescribed in section 119.07 of the Revised Code, except that the notice shall specify that a hearing will be held and specify the date, time, and place of the hearing.

(J) The director of transportation shall hold a hearing regarding an alleged violation of this section in the same manner prescribed for an adjudication hearing under section 119.09 of the Revised Code. If the director of transportation determines after the hearing that a violation has occurred, the director of transportation shall issue a report and recommendations to the railroad company that includes all of the following information:

(1) The time any examination regarding the alleged violation was made by a local department of health or by the director of transportation;

(2) The exact location, character, and extent of the violation;

(3) Reasonable changes, improvements, additions, buildings, or accommodations necessary to remedy the violation;

(4) A reasonable time within which the changes, improvements, additions, buildings, or accommodations must be completed.

(K) If the railroad company does not complete the recommendations issued to the railroad company pursuant to division (J) of this section, the director of transportation, through the attorney general or an appropriate prosecuting attorney, may apply to an appropriate court for an order enjoining the violation of this section. On the filing of a verified petition, the court shall conduct a hearing on the petition and give the same preference to the proceeding as is given to all proceedings under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, irrespective of the position of the proceeding on the court's calendar. On a showing that the railroad company violated this section, the court shall grant an injunction or other order as appropriate.

(L) The director of health shall adopt rules to administer this section, including all of the following rules:

(1) Rules regulating the sanitary conditions, operation, and facilities of mobile camps;

(2) Rules determining standards of adequacy or sufficiency for the purposes of divisions (B), (C), and (D) of this section;

(3) A rule specifying a fee for inspection pursuant to division (F) of this section and an additional fee for any mobile camp that houses more than fifty occupants. The additional fee shall be incrementally increased for each additional group of fifty occupants. For purposes of calculating the additional fee when the number of occupants is not evenly divisible by fifty, the number of occupants shall be rounded up to the next higher increment of fifty.

(4) Rules allowing a board of health to conduct an inspection pursuant to division (F) of this section along with the director of health, a representative of the appropriate employee or contractor organization, or a representative of the railroad company.