389.820. Safety appliances--automatic couplers.
Safety appliances--automatic couplers.
389.820. From and after the first day of January, 1908, itshall be unlawful for any person, persons, company orcorporation, operating any line of railroad, in whole or in part,in this state, either as owner, lessee or receiver, to use orpermit to be used or hauled between stations within this state,on said line of railroad, any locomotive, tender, car or othervehicle for moving persons or freight, which shall not beequipped with handholds, grab irons and couplers, couplingautomatically by impact, and which can be coupled without thenecessity of men going between the ends of the cars for thepurpose of effecting such coupling.
(RSMo 1939 § 5236)Prior revisions: 1929 § 4779; 1919 § 9967; 1909 § 3166