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Code · U.S. Code · Title 49 - TRANSPORTATION · CHAPTER 285— COMMUTER RAIL MEDIATION · § 28501

§ 28501. Definitions

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In this chapter—
(1)the term “Board” means the Surface Transportation Board;
(2)the term “capital work” means maintenance, restoration, reconstruction, capacity enhancement, or rehabilitation work on trackage that would be treated, in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, as a capital item rather than an expense;
(3)the term “commuter rail passenger transportation” has the meaning given that term in section 24102;
(4)the term “public transportation authority” means a local governmental authority (as defined in section 5302) established to provide, or make a contract providing for, commuter rail passenger transportation;
(5)the term “rail carrier” means a person, other than a governmental authority, providing common carrier railroad transportation for compensation subject to the jurisdiction of the Board under chapter 105;
(6)the term “segregated fixed guideway facility” means a fixed guideway facility constructed within the railroad right-of-way of a rail carrier but physically separate from trackage, including relocated trackage, within the right-of-way used by a rail carrier for freight transportation purposes; and
(7)the term “trackage” means a railroad line of a rail carrier, including a spur, industrial, team, switching, side, yard, or station track, and a facility of a rail carrier.
(Added Pub. L. 110–432, div. B, title IV, § 401(a), Oct. 16, 2008, 122 Stat. 4955; amended Pub. L. 117–58, div. C, § 30001(b)(4), Nov. 15, 2021, 135 Stat. 890.)
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  • Pub. L. 110–432, div. B, title IV, § 401(a)
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Pub. L.Pub. L. 110–432, div. B, title IV, § 401(a)
Stat.122 Stat. 4955
Stat.135 Stat. 890
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