{"identifier":"/us/usc/t49/s28501","title_num":"49","num":"§ 28501.","heading":"Definitions","status":null,"guid":"ida974b909-22ee-11e8-be3d-9bb80bf86f2e","source_credit":"(Added Pub. L. 110–432, div. B, title IV, § 401(a), Oct. 16, 2008, 122 Stat. 4955.)","seq_in_title":583,"parent_identifier":"/us/usc/t49/stV/ptE/ch285","ancestors":[{"identifier":"/us/usc/t49","level":"title","num":"Title 49—","heading":"TRANSPORTATION","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t49/stV","level":"subtitle","num":"SUBTITLE V—","heading":"RAIL PROGRAMS","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t49/stV/ptE","level":"part","num":"PART E—","heading":"MISCELLANEOUS","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t49/stV/ptE/ch285","level":"chapter","num":"CHAPTER 285—","heading":"COMMUTER RAIL MEDIATION","status":null,"is_section":false}],"xml":"<section xmlns=\"http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:dcterms=\"http://purl.org/dc/terms/\" style=\"-uslm-lc:I80\" id=\"id48c03cdd-9222-11e6-b436-b6f01964ba54\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t49/s28501\"><num value=\"28501\">§ 28501.</num><heading> Definitions</heading>\n<chapeau style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\">In this chapter—</chapeau><paragraph style=\"-uslm-lc:I12\" class=\"indent1\" id=\"id48c03cde-9222-11e6-b436-b6f01964ba54\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t49/s28501/1\"><num value=\"1\">(1)</num><content> the term “Board” means the Surface Transportation Board;</content>\n</paragraph>\n<paragraph style=\"-uslm-lc:I12\" class=\"indent1\" id=\"id48c03cdf-9222-11e6-b436-b6f01964ba54\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t49/s28501/2\"><num value=\"2\">(2)</num><content> 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;</content>\n</paragraph>\n<paragraph style=\"-uslm-lc:I12\" class=\"indent1\" id=\"id48c03ce0-9222-11e6-b436-b6f01964ba54\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t49/s28501/3\"><num value=\"3\">(3)</num><content> the term “commuter rail passenger transportation” has the meaning given that term in section 24102;</content>\n</paragraph>\n<paragraph style=\"-uslm-lc:I12\" class=\"indent1\" id=\"id48c03ce1-9222-11e6-b436-b6f01964ba54\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t49/s28501/4\"><num value=\"4\">(4)</num><content> the term “public transportation authority” means a local governmental authority (as defined in section 5302(a)(6)) <ref class=\"footnoteRef\" idref=\"fn002086\">1</ref><note type=\"footnote\" id=\"fn002086\"><num>1</num> See References in Text note below.</note> established to provide, or make a contract providing for, commuter rail passenger transportation;</content>\n</paragraph>\n<paragraph style=\"-uslm-lc:I12\" class=\"indent1\" id=\"id48c03ce2-9222-11e6-b436-b6f01964ba54\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t49/s28501/5\"><num value=\"5\">(5)</num><content> 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;</content>\n</paragraph>\n<paragraph style=\"-uslm-lc:I12\" class=\"indent1\" id=\"id48c03ce3-9222-11e6-b436-b6f01964ba54\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t49/s28501/6\"><num value=\"6\">(6)</num><content> 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</content>\n</paragraph>\n<paragraph style=\"-uslm-lc:I12\" class=\"indent1\" id=\"id48c03ce4-9222-11e6-b436-b6f01964ba54\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t49/s28501/7\"><num value=\"7\">(7)</num><content> 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.</content>\n</paragraph>\n<sourceCredit id=\"id48c03ce5-9222-11e6-b436-b6f01964ba54\">(Added <ref href=\"/us/pl/110/432/dB/tIV\">Pub. L. 110–432, div. B, title IV</ref>, § 401(a), <date date=\"2008-10-16\">Oct. 16, 2008</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/122/4955\">122 Stat. 4955</ref>.)</sourceCredit>\n<notes type=\"uscNote\" id=\"id48c03ce6-9222-11e6-b436-b6f01964ba54\">\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I75\" topic=\"referencesInText\" id=\"id48c03ce7-9222-11e6-b436-b6f01964ba54\">\n<heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">References in Text</heading><p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Section 5302, referred to in par. (4), was amended generally by <ref href=\"/us/pl/112/141/dB\">Pub. L. 112–141, div. B</ref>, § 20004, <date date=\"2012-07-06\">July 6, 2012</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/126/623\">126 Stat. 623</ref>, and, as so amended, no longer contains a subsec. (a). 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