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# 18 U.S.C. § 341 - Definitions

## Text

As used in this chapter, the term “common carrier” means a locomotive, a rail carrier, a sleeping car carrier, a bus transporting passengers in interstate commerce, a water common carrier, and an air common carrier.

(Added Pub. L. 99–570, title I, § 1971(a), Oct. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 3207–59; amended Pub. L. 100–690, title VI, § 6482(a), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4382.)

## Notes

Editorial Notes

Amendments1988—Pub. L. 100–690 inserted “locomotive, a” after “means a”.