(Richard B. Smith
 PARTIES TO DISPUTE:
 (Illinois Central Gulf Railroad

 STATEMBNT OF CLAIM: "this is to nerve notice as required by the rules of
 the Rational Railroad Adjustment Hoard, of op inten
 tion to file an ex part* submission on this the Twenty-Sixth Day of January,
 in the year of Nineteen-H)sadred sad Eighty-Tyro, covering an unadjusted dis
 pute between Richard B. Smith sad the Illinois Central Calf Railroad involv
 ing the question: That acid party (Mr. Smith) was dismissed from his position
 as Trackeaa of Maintenance of Wary Employees illegally by the Illinois Central
 Gulf Railroad and Co-Respoadants 3. B. Powell-Division Engineer, J. 8. Harring
 Lon, and Supervisor H. B. Payne, etc."

 OPINION OF HOARD: The initial question before this Hoard is whether Claimant's
 petition to the Third Division vas properly riled in accord
 ance with provisions of the controlling agreement and the applicable Rules of
 this Hoard. From the record submitted to this Division, it is apparent that
 Claimant was clean' obligated to file the instant claim with this Hoard within
 nine (9) months of date of declination by Carrier's highest officer authorized
 to handle claims. Carries, in its submission, points out that Claimant never
 instituted his complaint within the time limits and steps of appeal as set forth
 in the pasties agreement. The record is barren of any ouch handling is the
 usual manner as proscribed in the Railway Labor Act. The Boles of this Hoard
 are uniformly applicable to the national railroad industry and implicitly indexed
 to the time limit provision of the collective bargaining agreements regulating
 the labor relation functions in the industry. Tie are compelled by the force sad
 consistency of oar decisional law to sustain Carrier's determination of Claimant's
 failure to comply pith timely handling of this claim. The present claim is
 juriadictionally defective.




                    Award Number 24147

                    Docket Number b6-24540


That the Carrier sad the Employe involved is this dispute are respectively Carrier and Employe w approved June 31, 1934;

 That this Division of the Adjustment Hoard had jurisdiction over the dispute involved herein; and

          That the Claim is barred.


                        A W A R D


          Claim dismissed.


                                NATIONAL Ff1ILHOan ADJDBTIMt HOARD

                                $y Order of Third Division


Attest: Acting Executive Secretary
 National Railroad Adjustment Hoard

 Btr
 Rosemarie Prasch, Administrative Assistant

 Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 27th day of January 1983.

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