United States Code (Last Updated: May 24, 2014) |
Title 49. TRANSPORTATION |
SubTitle IV. INTERSTATE TRANSPORTATION |
Part A. RAIL |
Chapter 101. GENERAL PROVISIONS |
§ 10102. Definitions
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In this part— (1) “Board” means the Surface Transportation Board; (2) “car service” includes (A) the use, control, supply, movement, distribution, exchange, interchange, and return of locomotives, cars, other vehicles, and special types of equipment used in the transportation of property by a rail carrier, and (B) the supply of trains by a rail carrier; (3) “control”, when referring to a relationship between persons, includes actual control, legal control, and the power to exercise control, through or by (A) common directors, officers, stockholders, a voting trust, or a holding or investment company, or (B) any other means; (4) “person”, in addition to its meaning under section 1 of title 1, includes a trustee, receiver, assignee, or personal representative of a person; (5) “rail carrier” means a person providing common carrier railroad transportation for compensation, but does not include street, suburban, or interurban electric railways not operated as part of the general system of rail transportation; (6) “railroad” includes— (A) a bridge, car float, lighter, ferry, and intermodal equipment used by or in connection with a railroad; (B) the road used by a rail carrier and owned by it or operated under an agreement; and (C) a switch, spur, track, terminal, terminal facility, and a freight depot, yard, and ground, used or necessary for transportation; (7) “rate” means a rate or charge for transportation; (8) “State” means a State of the United States and the District of Columbia; (9) “transportation” includes— (A) a locomotive, car, vehicle, vessel, warehouse, wharf, pier, dock, yard, property, facility, instrumentality, or equipment of any kind related to the movement of passengers or property, or both, by rail, regardless of ownership or an agreement concerning use; and (B) services related to that movement, including receipt, delivery, elevation, transfer in transit, refrigeration, icing, ventilation, storage, handling, and interchange of passengers and property; and (10) “United States” means the States of the United States and the District of Columbia.
Prior Provisions
Prior sections 10102 and 10103 were omitted in the general amendment of this subtitle by Pub. L. 104–88, § 102(a).
Section 10102, Pub. L. 95–473,
Section 10103, Pub. L. 95–473,
A prior chapter 103, consisting of sections 10301 to 10311, 10321, 10322, 10324, 10326 to 10330, 10341 to 10344, 10361 to 10364, and 10381 to 10388, was omitted in the general amendment of this subtitle by Pub. L. 104–88, § 102(a). See chapter 7 of this title.
Section 10301, Pub. L. 95–473,
Section 10302, Pub. L. 95–473,
Section 10303, Pub. L. 95–473,
Section 10304, Pub. L. 95–473,
Section 10305, Pub. L. 95–473,
Section 10306, Pub. L. 95–473,
Section 10307, Pub. L. 95–473,
Section 10308, Pub. L. 95–473,
Section 10309, Pub. L. 95–473,
Section 10310, Pub. L. 95–473,
Section 10311, Pub. L. 95–473,
Section 10321, Pub. L. 95–473,
Section 10322, Pub. L. 95–473,
A prior section 10323, Pub. L. 95–473,
Section 10324, Pub. L. 95–473,
A prior section 10325, Pub. L. 95–473,
Section 10326, Pub. L. 95–473,
Section 10327, Pub. L. 95–473,
Section 10328, Pub. L. 95–473,
Section 10329, Pub. L. 95–473,
Section 10330, Pub. L. 95–473,
Section 10341, Pub. L. 95–473,
Section 10342, Pub. L. 95–473,
Section 10343, Pub. L. 95–473,
Section 10344, Pub. L. 95–473,
Section 10361, Pub. L. 95–473,
Section 10362, Pub. L. 95–473,
Section 10363, Pub. L. 95–473,
Section 10364, Pub. L. 95–473,
Section 10381, Pub. L. 95–473,
Section 10382, Pub. L. 95–473,
Section 10383, Pub. L. 95–473,
Section 10384, Pub. L. 95–473,
Section 10385, Pub. L. 95–473,
Section 10386, Pub. L. 95–473,
Section 10387, Pub. L. 95–473,
Section 10388, Pub. L. 95–473,