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title: "49 U.S.C. § 28501"
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title_number: 49
title_name: "TRANSPORTATION"
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chapter_name: "COMMUTER RAIL MEDIATION"
section: "28501"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 28501"
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# 49 U.S.C. § 28501 - Definitions
## Text
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. 110432, div. B, title IV, § 401(a), Oct. 16, 2008, 122 Stat. 4955; amended Pub. L. 11758, div. C, § 30001(b)(4), Nov. 15, 2021, 135 Stat. 890.)
## Notes
Editorial Notes
Amendments2021—Par. (4). Pub. L. 11758 substituted “section 5302” for “section 5302(a)(6)”.