49 U.S.C. § 13102
Definitions
United States · Title 49 — TRANSPORTATION · Status: effective
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- 49 U.S.C. § 13102, Definitions, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/490201
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In this part, the following definitions shall apply:
The term “contract carriage” means—
The term “control”, when referring to a relationship between persons, includes actual control, legal control, and the power to exercise control, through or by—
The term “foreign motor carrier” means a person (including a motor carrier of property but excluding a motor private carrier)—
The term “foreign motor private carrier” means a person (including a motor private carrier but excluding a motor carrier of property)—
The term “freight forwarder” means a person holding itself out to the general public (other than as a pipeline, rail, motor, or water carrier) to provide transportation of property for compensation and in the ordinary course of its business—
The term “household goods”, as used in connection with transportation, means personal effects and property used or to be used in a dwelling, when a part of the equipment or supply of such dwelling, and similar property if the transportation of such effects or property is—
The term “household goods motor carrier” means a motor carrier that, in the ordinary course of its business of providing transportation of household goods, offers some or all of the following additional services:
The term “individual shipper” means any person who—
The term “motor private carrier” means a person, other than a motor carrier, transporting property by motor vehicle when—
The term “taxicab service” means passenger transportation in a motor vehicle having a capacity of not more than 8 passengers (including the driver), not operated on a regular route or between specified places, and that—
is offered by a person that—
The term “transportation” includes—
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone.
- ICC Termination Act of 1995House: 417–8Senate: no recorded tally
- To codify without substantive change laws related to transportation and to improve the United States Code.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Motor Carrier Safety Improvement Act of 1999House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Real Interstate Driver Equity Act of 2002House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- SAFETEA-LU
- SAFETEA-LU Technical Corrections Act of 2008House: no recorded tallySenate: 88–2
- Over-the-Road Bus Transportation Accessibility Act of 2007House: 374–0Senate: no recorded tally