(System Board of Adjustment No. 218 (Brotherhood of Railway, Airline & Steamship Clerks PARTIES TO DISPUTE: (Norfolk and Western Railway Company ( (Lake Region)

 STATEMENT OF CLAIM: Claim of the System Board of Adjustment No. 218 (GL
 7383) on the Lake Region, (former NKP), Norfolk and
 Western Railway Company, that:

 1. Carrier failed to comply with Article V, Section 1(a) of the August 21, 1954 Agreement in handling claim filed by and on behalf of H. G. Prinz, Clerk, Calumet Yard - Chicago Terminal - Chicago, Illinois.

 2. The claim of Clerk H. G. Prinz be allowed as presented, i.e.; "8 hours at punitive rate for April 1, 1972, and for each and every day thereafter until claim has been satisfied."

 OPINION OF BOARD: There is no dispute concerning the basic facts involved
 in this claim. Claimant filed a claim that was not denied
 within sixty (60) days as required by the Parties' time limits rule, Article
 V, Section l(a) of the August 21, 1954 Agreement. On the Record, Carrier ad
 mits that Claimant was not notified that his claim was disallowed until June
 21, 1972, seventy-one (71) days after the date on which it was filed, but
 argues that the delay resulted from a typographical error. Carrier's posi
 tion is that such typographical errors are not valid basis for payment under
 the provisions of Article V of the August 21, 1954 Agreement.

 The Board has held many times that the time limit requirements of the August 21, 1954 Agreement are mandatory and that failure to timely disallow a claim requires tha (La Driere), 10138 (Daly), 10500 (Hall), 12233 (Engelstein), 12472 (Kane), 14759 (Ritter), 16564 (Dorsey), 19361 (Devine), 19946 (Blackwell), and 20410 (Edgett).

 We will sustain the claim. However, in accordance with National Disputes Committee Decision No. 16, dated March 17, 1963, Carrier's denial letter dated June 21, 1972 stopped Carrier's liability arising out of its failure to comply with Article V of the August 21, 1954 Agreement as of that date.






That the Carrier and the Employes involved in this dispute are respectively Carrier and Employes within the meaning of the Railway Labor Act, as approved June 21, 1934;

 That this Division of the Adjustment Board has jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein; and

 That the Carrier violated the time limits provisions of the Agreement.

Claim sustained for eight (8) hours at the punitive rate for each day in the period April 1, 1972 to June 21, 1972, inclusive.
                          By Order of Third Division


        ATTEST: Executive Secretary


Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 8th day of November 1974.