Federal

Title 49 — Transportation

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

• § 32503 — Judicial review of bumper standards
• § 32504 — Certificates of compliance
• § 32505 — Information and compliance requirements
• § 32506 — Prohibited acts
• § 32507 — Penalties and enforcement
• § 32508 — Civil actions by owners of passenger motor vehicles
• § 32509 — Information and assistance from other departments, agencies, and instrumentalities
• § 32510 — Repealed. Pub. L. 105–362, title XV, § 1501(e)(1) , Nov. 10, 1998 , 112 Stat. 3294 ]
• § 32511 — Relationship to other motor vehicle standards
• § 326 — Gifts
• § 327 — Administrative working capital fund
• § 32701 — Findings and purposes
• § 32702 — Definitions
• § 32703 — Preventing tampering
• § 32704 — Service, repair, and replacement
• § 32705 — Disclosure requirements on transfer of motor vehicles
• § 32706 — Inspections, investigations, and records
• § 32707 — Administrative warrants
• § 32708 — Confidentiality of information
• § 32709 — Penalties and enforcement
• § 32710 — Civil actions by private persons
• § 32711 — Relationship to State law
• § 328 — Transportation Systems Center working capital fund
• § 329 — Transportation information
• § 32901 — Definitions
• § 32902 — Average fuel economy standards
• § 32903 — Credits for exceeding average fuel economy standards
• § 32904 — Calculation of average fuel economy
• § 32905 — Manufacturing incentives for alternative fuel automobiles
• § 32906 — Maximum fuel economy increase for alternative fuel automobiles
• § 32907 — Reports and tests of manufacturers
• § 32908 — Fuel economy information
• § 32909 — Judicial review of regulations
• § 32910 — Administrative
• § 32911 — Compliance
• § 32912 — Civil penalties
• § 32913 — Compromising and remitting civil penalties
• § 32914 — Collecting civil penalties
• § 32915 — Appealing civil penalties
• § 32916 — Reports to Congress
• § 32917 — Standards for executive agency automobiles
• § 32918 — Retrofit devices
• § 32919 — Preemption
• § 330 — Research activities
• § 331 — Service, supplies, and facilities at remote places
• § 33101 — Definitions
• § 33102 — Theft prevention standard for high theft lines
• § 33103 — Theft prevention standard for other lines
• § 33104 — Designation of high theft vehicle lines and parts
• § 33105 — Cost limitations
• § 33106 — Exemption for passenger motor vehicles equipped with anti-theft devices
• § 33107 — Voluntary vehicle identification standards
• § 33108 — Monitoring compliance of manufacturers
• § 33109 — National Stolen Passenger Motor Vehicle Information System
• § 33110 — Verifications involving junk and salvage motor vehicles
• § 33111 — Verifications involving motor vehicle major parts
• § 33112 — Repealed. Pub. L. 112–141, div. C, title I, § 31313(2) , July 6, 2012 , 126 Stat. 772 ]
• § 33113 — Theft reports
• § 33114 — Prohibited acts
• § 33115 — Civil penalties and enforcement
• § 33116 — Confidentiality of information
• § 33117 — Judicial review
• § 33118 — Preemption of State and local law
• § 332 — Minority Resource Center
• § 333 — Responsibility for rail transportation unification and coordination projects
• § 334, 335 — Repealed. Pub. L. 103–272, § 4(j)(9)(A) , July 5, 1994 , 108 Stat. 1367 ]
• § 336 — Civil penalty procedures
• § 337 — Budget request for the Director of Intelligence and Security
• § 351 — Judicial review of actions in carrying out certain transferred duties and powers
• § 352 — Authority to carry out certain transferred duties and powers
• § 353 — Toxicological testing of officers and employees
• § 354 — Investigative authority of Inspector General
• § 355 — Motorcyclist Advisory Council
• § 40101 — Policy
• § 40102 — Definitions
• § 40103 — Sovereignty and use of airspace
• § 40104 — Promotion of civil aeronautics and safety of air commerce
• § 40105 — International negotiations, agreements, and obligations
• § 40106 — Emergency powers
• § 40107 — Presidential transfers
• § 40108 — Training schools
• § 40109 — Authority to exempt
• § 40110 — General procurement authority
• § 40111 — Multiyear procurement contracts for services and related items
• § 40112 — Multiyear procurement contracts for property
• § 40113 — Administrative
• § 40114 — Reports and records
• § 40115 — Withholding information
• § 40116 — State taxation
• § 40117 — Passenger facility charges
• § 40118 — Government-financed air transportation
• § 40119 — Sensitive security information
• § 40120 — Relationship to other laws
• § 40121 — Air traffic control modernization reviews
• § 40122 — Federal Aviation Administration personnel management system
• § 40123 — Protection of voluntarily submitted information
• § 40124 — Interstate agreements for airport facilities
• § 40125 — Qualifications for public aircraft status
• § 40126 — Severable services contracts for periods crossing fiscal years
• § 40127 — Prohibitions on discrimination
• § 40128 — Overflights of national parks
• § 40129 — Collaborative decisionmaking pilot program
• § 40130 — FAA authority to conduct criminal history record checks
• § 40131 — National airspace system cyber threat management process
• § 40132 — National strategic plan for aviation workforce development
• § 41101 — Requirement for a certificate
• § 41102 — General, temporary, and charter air transportation certificates of air carriers
• § 41103 — All-cargo air transportation certificates of air carriers
• § 41104 — Additional limitations and requirements of charter air carriers
• § 41105 — Transfers of certificates
• § 41106 — Airlift service
• § 41107 — Transportation of mail
• § 41108 — Applications for certificates
• § 41109 — Terms of certificates
• § 41110 — Effective periods and amendments, modifications, suspensions, and revocations of certificates
• § 41111 — Simplified procedure to apply for, amend, modify, suspend, and transfer certificates
• § 41112 — Liability insurance and financial responsibility
• § 41113 — Plans to address needs of families of passengers involved in aircraft accidents
• § 41301 — Requirement for a permit
• § 41302 — Permits of foreign air carriers
• § 41303 — Transfers of permits
• § 41304 — Effective periods and amendments, modifications, suspensions, and revocations of permits
• § 41305 — Applications for permits
• § 41306 — Simplified procedure to apply for, amend, modify, and suspend permits
• § 41307 — Presidential review of actions about foreign air transportation
• § 41308 — Exemption from the antitrust laws
• § 41309 — Cooperative agreements and requests
• § 41310 — Discriminatory practices
• § 41311 — Gambling restrictions
• § 41312 — Ending or suspending foreign air transportation
• § 41313 — Plans to address needs of families of passengers involved in foreign air carrier accidents
• § 41501 — Establishing reasonable prices, classifications, rules, practices, and divisions of joint prices for foreign air transportation
• § 41502 — Establishing joint prices for through routes with other carriers
• § 41503 — Establishing joint prices for through routes provided by State authorized carriers
• § 41504 — Tariffs for foreign air transportation
• § 41505 — Uniform methods for establishing joint prices, and divisions of joint prices, applicable to commuter air carriers
• § 41506 — Price division filing requirements for foreign air transportation
• § 41507 — Authority of the Secretary of Transportation to change prices, classifications, rules, and practices for foreign air transportation
• § 41508 — Authority of the Secretary of Transportation to adjust divisions of joint prices for foreign air transportation
• § 41509 — Authority of the Secretary of Transportation to suspend, cancel, and reject tariffs for foreign air transportation
• § 41510 — Required adherence to foreign air transportation tariffs
• § 41511 — Special prices for foreign air transportation
• § 41701 — Classification of air carriers
• § 41702 — Interstate air transportation
• § 41703 — Navigation of foreign civil aircraft
• § 41704 — Transporting property not to be transported in aircraft cabins
• § 41705 — Discrimination against individuals with disabilities
• § 41706 — Prohibitions against smoking on passenger flights
• § 41707 — Incorporating contract terms into written instrument
• § 41708 — Reports
• § 41709 — Records of air carriers
• § 41710 — Time requirements
• § 41711 — Air carrier management inquiry and cooperation with other authorities
• § 41712 — Unfair and deceptive practices and unfair methods of competition
• § 41713 — Preemption of authority over prices, routes, and service
• § 41714 — Availability of slots
• § 41715 — Phase-out of slot rules at certain airports
• § 41716 — Interim slot rules at New York airports
• § 41717 — Interim application of slot rules at Chicago O’Hare International Airport
• § 41718 — Special rules for Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport
• § 41719 — Air service termination notice
• § 41720 — Joint venture agreements
• § 41721 — Reports by carriers on incidents involving animals during air transport
• § 41722 — Delay reduction actions
• § 41723 — Notice concerning aircraft assembly
• § 41724 — Musical instruments
• § 41725 — Prohibition on certain cell phone voice communications
• § 41726 — Strollers
• § 41727 — Passenger Rights 1 1 So in original. Probably should not be capitalized.
• § 41728 — Airline passengers with disabilities bill of rights
• § 41729 — COVID–19 vaccination status
• § 41731 — Definitions
• § 41732 — Basic essential air service
• § 41733 — Level of basic essential air service
• § 41734 — Ending, suspending, and reducing basic essential air service
• § 41735 — Repealed. Pub. L. 118–63, title V, § 561(g) , May 16, 2024 , 138 Stat. 1216 ]
• § 41736 — Air transportation to noneligible places
• § 41737 — Compensation guidelines, limitations, and claims
• § 41738 — Fitness of air carriers
• § 41739 — Air carrier obligations
• § 41740 — Repealed. Pub. L. 118–63, title V, § 561(i) , May 16, 2024 , 138 Stat. 1216 ]
• § 41741 — Insurance
• § 41742 — Essential air service authorization
• § 41743 — Airports not receiving sufficient service
• § 41744 — Repealed. Pub. L. 118–63, title V, § 561(j) , May 16, 2024 , 138 Stat. 1216 ]
• § 41745 — Community and regional choice programs
• § 41746 — Tracking service
• § 41747 — Repealed. Pub. L. 112–95, title IV, § 430 , Feb. 14, 2012 , 126 Stat. 100 ]
• § 41748 — Repealed. Pub. L. 118–63, title V, § 561 ( l ), May 16, 2024 , 138 Stat. 1217 ]
• § 41761 — Purpose
• § 41762 — Definitions
• § 41763 — Federal credit instruments
• § 41764 — Use of Federal facilities and assistance
• § 41765 — Administrative expenses
• § 41766 — Funding
• § 41767 — Termination
• § 41901 — General authority
• § 41902 — Schedules for certain transportation of mail
• § 41903 — Duty to provide certain transportation of mail
• § 41904 — Noncitizens transporting mail