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legal/us/code/title-49/chapter-313/section-31317.md

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+type: "LegalText"
+title: "49 U.S.C. § 31317"
+description: "Procedure for prescribing regulations"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 49
+title_name: "TRANSPORTATION"
+chapter_number: "313"
+chapter_name: "COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE OPERATORS"
+section: "31317"
+citation: "49 U.S.C. § 31317"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
+source: "official"
+source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc49@119-100.zip"
+source_identifier: "/us/usc/t49/s31317"
+source_file: "data/legal/raw/us/code/title-49/usc49.xml"
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+retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
+confidence: "official"
+tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
+---
+
+# 49 U.S.C. § 31317 - Procedure for prescribing regulations
+
+## Text
+
+Regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Transportation to carry out this chapter (except section 31307) shall be prescribed under section 553 of title 5 without regard to sections 556 and 557 of title 5.
+
+(Pub. L. 103–272, § 1(e), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 1029.)
+
+## Notes
+
+Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 3131749 App.:2715.Oct. 27, 1986, Pub. L. 99–570, § 12018, 100 Stat. 3207–187. The text of 49 App.:2715(a) is omitted as surplus because of 49:322(a). The words “(except section 31307)” are added because the source provisions restated in this section do not apply to the source provisions restated in section 31307 of the revised title.