49 U.S.C. § 31304
Employer responsibilities
United States · Title 49 — TRANSPORTATION · Status: effective
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- 49 U.S.C. § 31304, Employer responsibilities, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/490683
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An employer may not allow an employee to operate a commercial motor vehicle in the United States during a period that the employer knows or should reasonably know that the employee—
Except as provided in paragraph (3), an employer shall ascertain the driving record of each driver it employs—
Paragraph (1) shall not apply to a driver employed by an employer who, in any 7-day period, is employed or used as a driver by more than 1 employer—
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.
- To revise, codify, and enact without substantive change certain general and permanent laws, related to transportation, as subtitles II, III, and V-X of title 49, United States Code, "Transportation", and to make other technical improvements in the Code.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
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