U.S.C. Title 49 - TRANSPORTATION 49 U.S.C. United States Code, 2023 Edition Title 49 - TRANSPORTATION SUBTITLE V - RAIL PROGRAMS PART E - MISCELLANEOUS CHAPTER 285 - COMMUTER RAIL MEDIATION Sec. 28501 - Definitions From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov

§28501. Definitions

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.)

Editorial Notes

Amendments 2021—Par. (4). Pub. L. 117–58 substituted "section 5302" for "section 5302(a)(6)".