Title 49 of the
United States Code
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is a
positive law title of the
United States Code
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with the heading "Transportation."
The title was enacted into positive law by , § 1, October 17, 1978, ; , § 1, January 12, 1983, ; and , July 5, 1994, (subtitles II, III, and V-X)
During the time between when the Title 49 positive law codification began in 1978 and when it was completed in 1994, the remaining non-positive law sections were placed in an appendix to Title 49.
In 1995, the
ICC Termination Act, substantively and significantly amended Title 49.
In 2010, Congress enacted
Title 51 as a new positive law title concerning
NASA
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and commercial space programs. As part of the codification, the heading of Subtitle IX was marked "transferred" and the contents of such subtitle were moved to Title 51. Five years later, the
FAST Act inserted a new Subtitle IX. The heading of new Subtitle IX was given the heading "Multimodal Freight Transportation."
[Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act, , Sec. 8001(a), , 1604; Act of 2015-12-4.]
* Subtitle I—
Department of Transportation
* Subtitle II—
Other Government Agencies
* Subtitle III—General and Intermodal Programs
* Subtitle IV—Interstate Transportation
* Subtitle V—Rail Programs
* Subtitle VI—Motor Vehicle and Driver Programs
* Subtitle VII—Aviation Programs
* Subtitle VIII—
Pipeline
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* Subtitle IX—Multimodal Freight Transportation
* Subtitle X—Miscellaneous
External links
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