Federal

Title 49 — Transportation

1,371 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 101 — Purpose
• § 10101 — Rail transportation policy
• § 10102 — Definitions
• § 102 — Department of Transportation
• § 103 — Federal Railroad Administration
• § 104 — Federal Highway Administration
• § 105 — National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• § 10501 — General jurisdiction
• § 10502 — Authority to exempt rail carrier transportation
• § 106 — Federal Aviation Administration
• § 107 — Federal Transit Administration
• § 10701 — Standards for rates, classifications, through routes, rules, and practices
• § 10702 — Authority for rail carriers to establish rates, classifications, rules, and practices
• § 10703 — Authority for rail carriers to establish through routes
• § 10704 — Authority and criteria: rates, classifications, rules, and practices prescribed by Board
• § 10705 — Authority: through routes, joint classifications, rates, and divisions prescribed by Board
• § 10706 — Rate agreements: exemption from antitrust laws
• § 10707 — Determination of market dominance in rail rate proceedings
• § 10708 — Rail cost adjustment factor
• § 10709 — Contracts
• § 10721 — Government traffic
• § 10722 — Car utilization
• § 10741 — Prohibitions against discrimination by rail carriers
• § 10742 — Facilities for interchange of traffic
• § 10743 — Liability for payment of rates
• § 10744 — Continuous carriage of freight
• § 10745 — Transportation services or facilities furnished by shipper
• § 10746 — Demurrage charges
• § 10747 — Designation of certain routes by shippers
• § 108 — Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
• § 109 — Maritime Administration
• § 10901 — Authorizing construction and operation of railroad lines
• § 10902 — Short line purchases by Class II and Class III rail carriers
• § 10903 — Filing and procedure for application to abandon or discontinue
• § 10904 — Offers of financial assistance to avoid abandonment and discontinuance
• § 10905 — Offering abandoned rail properties for sale for public purposes
• § 10906 — Exception
• § 10907 — Railroad development
• § 10908 — Regulation of solid waste rail transfer facilities
• § 10909 — Solid waste rail transfer facility land-use exemption
• § 10910 — Effect on other statutes and authorities
• § 110 — Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
• § 1101 — Definitions
• § 111 — Repealed. Pub. L. 112–141, div. E, title II, § 52011(c)(1) , July 6, 2012 , 126 Stat. 895 ]
• § 11101 — Common carrier transportation, service, and rates
• § 11102 — Use of terminal facilities
• § 11103 — Switch connections and tracks
• § 1111 — General organization
• § 1112 — Special boards of inquiry on air transportation safety
• § 11121 — Criteria
• § 11122 — Compensation and practice
• § 11123 — Situations requiring immediate action to serve the public
• § 11124 — War emergencies; embargoes imposed by carriers
• § 1113 — Administrative
• § 1114 — Disclosure, availability, and use of information
• § 11141 — Definitions
• § 11142 — Uniform accounting system
• § 11143 — Depreciation charges
• § 11144 — Records: form; inspection; preservation
• § 11145 — Reports by rail carriers, lessors, and associations
• § 1115 — Training
• § 1116 — Reports, studies, and retrospective reviews
• § 11161 — Implementation of cost accounting principles
• § 11162 — Rail carrier cost accounting system
• § 11163 — Cost availability
• § 11164 — Accounting and cost reporting
• § 1117 — Methodology
• § 1118 — Authorization of appropriations
• § 1119 — Accident and safety data classification and publication
• § 112 — Repealed. Pub. L. 114–94, div. A, title VI, § 6012(a) , Dec. 4, 2015 , 129 Stat. 1570 ]
• § 113 — Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
• § 11301 — Equipment trusts: recordation; evidence of indebtedness
• § 1131 — General authority
• § 1132 — Civil aircraft accident investigations
• § 11321 — Scope of authority
• § 11322 — Limitation on pooling and division of transportation or earnings
• § 11323 — Consolidation, merger, and acquisition of control
• § 11324 — Consolidation, merger, and acquisition of control: conditions of approval
• § 11325 — Consolidation, merger, and acquisition of control: procedure
• § 11326 — Employee protective arrangements in transactions involving rail carriers
• § 11327 — Supplemental orders
• § 11328 — Restrictions on officers and directors
• § 1133 — Review of other agency action
• § 1134 — Inspections and autopsies
• § 1135 — Secretary of Transportation’s responses to safety recommendations
• § 1136 — Assistance to passengers involved in aircraft accidents and families of such passengers
• § 1137 — Authority of the Inspector General
• § 1138 — Evaluation and audit of National Transportation Safety Board
• § 1139 — Assistance to passengers involved in rail passenger accidents and families of such passengers
• § 114 — Transportation Security Administration
• § 1140 — Information individuals 1 involved in accidents and families of such individuals 1 So in original. Probably should be preceded by “for”.
• § 115 — Transportation Security Oversight Board
• § 11501 — Tax discrimination against rail transportation property
• § 11502 — Withholding State and local income tax by rail carriers
• § 1151 — Aviation enforcement
• § 1152 — Joinder and intervention in aviation proceedings
• § 1153 — Judicial review
• § 1154 — Discovery and use of cockpit and surface vehicle recordings and transcripts
• § 1155 — Penalties
• § 116 — National Surface Transportation and Innovative Finance Bureau
• § 117 — Council on Credit and Finance
• § 11701 — General authority
• § 11702 — Enforcement by the Board
• § 11703 — Enforcement by the Attorney General
• § 11704 — Rights and remedies of persons injured by rail carriers
• § 11705 — Limitation on actions by and against rail carriers
• § 11706 — Liability of rail carriers under receipts and bills of lading
• § 11707 — Liability when property is delivered in violation of routing instructions
• § 11708 — Voluntary arbitration of certain rail rates and practices disputes
• § 118 — Office of Multimodal Freight Infrastructure and Policy
• § 119 — Advanced Research Projects Agency–Infrastructure
• § 11901 — General civil penalties
• § 11902 — Interference with railroad car supply
• § 11903 — Record keeping and reporting violations
• § 11904 — Unlawful disclosure of information
• § 11905 — Disobedience to subpoenas
• § 11906 — General criminal penalty when specific penalty not provided
• § 11907 — Punishment of corporation for violations committed by certain individuals
• § 11908 — Relation to other Federal criminal penalties
• § 1301 — Establishment of Board
• § 1302 — Functions
• § 1303 — Administrative provisions
• § 1304 — Reports
• § 1305 — Authorization of appropriations
• § 1306 — Reporting official action
• § 13101 — Transportation policy
• § 13102 — Definitions
• § 13103 — Remedies as cumulative
• § 1321 — Powers
• § 1322 — Board action
• § 1323 — Service of notice in Board proceedings
• § 1324 — Service of process in court proceedings
• § 1325 — Railroad-Shipper Transportation Advisory Council
• § 1326 — Authority of the Inspector General
• § 13301 — Powers
• § 13302 — Intervention
• § 13303 — Service of notice in proceedings
• § 13304 — Service of process in court proceedings
• § 13501 — General jurisdiction
• § 13502 — Exempt transportation between Alaska and other States
• § 13503 — Exempt motor vehicle transportation in terminal areas
• § 13504 — Exempt motor carrier transportation entirely in one State
• § 13505 — Transportation furthering a primary business
• § 13506 — Miscellaneous motor carrier transportation exemptions
• § 13507 — Mixed loads of regulated and unregulated property
• § 13508 — Limited authority over cooperative associations
• § 13521 — General jurisdiction
• § 13531 — General jurisdiction
• § 13541 — Authority to exempt transportation or services
• § 13701 — Requirements for reasonable rates, classifications, through routes, rules, and practices for certain transportation
• § 13702 — Tariff requirement for certain transportation
• § 13703 — Certain collective activities; exemption from antitrust laws
• § 13704 — Household goods rates—estimates; guarantees of service
• § 13705 — Requirements for through routes among motor carriers of passengers
• § 13706 — Liability for payment of rates
• § 13707 — Payment of rates
• § 13708 — Billing and collecting practices
• § 13709 — Procedures for resolving claims involving unfiled, negotiated transportation rates
• § 13710 — Additional billing and collecting practices
• § 13711 — Alternative procedure for resolving undercharge disputes
• § 13712 — Government traffic
• § 13713 — Food and grocery transportation
• § 13901 — Requirements for registration
• § 13902 — Registration of motor carriers
• § 13903 — Registration of freight forwarders
• § 13904 — Registration of brokers
• § 13905 — Effective periods of registration
• § 13906 — Security of motor carriers, motor private carriers, brokers, and freight forwarders
• § 13907 — Household goods agents
• § 13908 — Registration and other reforms
• § 13909 — Availability of information
• § 14101 — Providing transportation and service
• § 14102 — Leased motor vehicles
• § 14103 — Loading and unloading motor vehicles
• § 14104 — Household goods carrier operations
• § 14121 — Definitions
• § 14122 — Records: form; inspection; preservation
• § 14123 — Financial reporting
• § 14301 — Security interests in certain motor vehicles
• § 14302 — Pooling and division of transportation or earnings
• § 14303 — Consolidation, merger, and acquisition of control of motor carriers of passengers
• § 14501 — Federal authority over intrastate transportation
• § 14502 — Tax discrimination against motor carrier transportation property
• § 14503 — Withholding State and local income tax by certain carriers
• § 14504 — Repealed. Pub. L. 109–59, title IV, § 4305(a) , Aug. 10, 2005 , 119 Stat. 1764 ; Pub. L. 110–53, title XV, § 1537(a) , Aug. 3, 2007 , 121 Stat. 467 ]
• § 14504a — Unified Carrier Registration System plan and agreement
• § 14505 — State tax
• § 14506 — Identification of vehicles
• § 14701 — General authority
• § 14702 — Enforcement by the regulatory authority
• § 14703 — Enforcement by the Attorney General
• § 14704 — Rights and remedies of persons injured by carriers or brokers
• § 14705 — Limitation on actions by and against carriers
• § 14706 — Liability of carriers under receipts and bills of lading
• § 14707 — Private enforcement of registration requirement
• § 14708 — Dispute settlement program for household goods carriers
• § 14709 — Tariff reconciliation rules for motor carriers of property
• § 14710 — Enforcement of Federal laws and regulations with respect to transportation of household goods
• § 14711 — Enforcement by State attorneys general
• § 14901 — General civil penalties