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Code · U.S. Code · Title 49 - TRANSPORTATION · CHAPTER 101— GENERAL PROVISIONS · § 10102

§ 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.
(Added Pub. L. 104–88, title I, § 102(a), Dec. 29, 1995, 109 Stat. 806.)
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  • Pub. L. 104–88, title I, § 102(a)
  • 109 Stat. 806
  • Pub. L. 104–88, § 102(a)
  • Pub. L. 95–473
  • 92 Stat. 1338
  • Pub. L. 96–296, § 10(a)(1)
  • 94 Stat. 799
  • Pub. L. 96–454, § 3(a)
  • 94 Stat. 2011
  • Pub. L. 97–261, § 6(d)(1)
  • 96 Stat. 1107
  • Pub. L. 99–521, § 4
  • 100 Stat. 2993
  • Pub. L. 103–272, § 5(m)(13)
  • 108 Stat. 1377
  • Pub. L. 103–311, title II
  • 108 Stat. 1683
  • 92 Stat. 1340
  • Pub. L. 96–448, title II, § 214(c)(2)
  • 94 Stat. 1915
  • 92 Stat. 1341
  • Pub. L. 97–253, title V, § 502(b)
  • 96 Stat. 806
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  • Pub. L. 103–437, § 18
  • 108 Stat. 4596
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  • Pub. L. 97–261, § 24
  • 96 Stat. 1124
  • Pub. L. 103–272, § 4(j)(12)
  • 108 Stat. 1368
  • 92 Stat. 1346
  • Pub. L. 96–296, § 25(a)
  • 94 Stat. 816
  • Pub. L. 96–454, § 5(b)
  • 94 Stat. 2014
  • Pub. L. 97–261
  • Pub. L. 98–554, title II, § 226(c)(1)
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Pub. L.Pub. L. 104–88, title I, § 102(a)
Stat.109 Stat. 806
Pub. L.Pub. L. 104–88, § 102(a)
Pub. L.Pub. L. 95–473
Stat.92 Stat. 1338
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