signal violation

The referees signal violations to racers by raising a two-foot white placard.

Engineers committing a Stop signal violation automatically have their Federal certification suspended and are frequently fired.

If route requests are issued without NJT dispatcher permission, it is treated as a signal violation.

Two of the four signal violations involved passenger trains, and the others occurred with work trains or empty trains, the newspaper said, citing agency records.

Even if the current rules had been in place then, he would not have received a mandatory one-year suspension because his two signal violations were three and a half years apart.

He said he found no pattern and determined that the signal violations, none of which resulted in any injuries, resulted from brief losses of mental focus, not fatigue or overwork.

In 2007, he participated in a summer clinic at Don Guanella High School in Springfield, Pennsylvania, along with four other NBA officials, teaching developmentally challenged boys the rules of basketball and how to signal violations.