Volume 68 · 527
Public Law 83–522
To amend certain provisions of part II of the Interstate Commerce Act so as to authorize regulation, for purposes of safety and protection of the public, of certain motor-carrier transportation between points in foreign countries, insofar as such transportation takes place within the United States.
Approved July 22, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend certain provisions of part II of the Interstate Commerce Act so as to authorize regulation, for purposes of safety and protection of the public, of certain motor-carrier transportation between points in foreign countries, insofar as such transportation takes place within the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That paragraph (11) of section 203 (a) of the Interstate Commerce Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: “The term ‘foreign commerce’ also includes transportation between places in a foreign country, or between a place in one foreign country and a place in another foreign country, insofar as such transportation takes place within the United States, but only for purposes of the application, to carriers engaged in such transportation, of the following provisions of this part: Section 215 (which relates to insurance for the protection
of the public), section 221 (which relates to designation of an agent for service of process), and those provisions of section 204 which relate to qualifications and maximum hours of service of employees and safety of operation and equipment.”
Sec. 2.
Section 215 of the Interstate Commerce Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sentence: “The Commission may prescribe, with respect to motor carriers operating within the United States in the course of engaging in transportation between places in a foreign country or between a place in one foreign country and a place in another foreign country, such reasonable regulations concerning security for the protection of the public as the Commission is authorized, by this section, to prescribe for other motor carriers.”
Sec. 3.
Subsection (c) of section 221 of the Interstate Commerce Act is amended to read as follows:
“(c) Every motor carrier (including any motor carrier operating within the United States in the course of engaging in transportation between places in a foreign country or between a place in one foreign country and a place in another foreign country) shall also file with the board of each State in which it operates and with the Interstate Commerce Commission a designation in writing of the name and post-office address of a person in such State upon whom process issued by or under the authority of any court having jurisdiction of the subject matter may be served in any proceeding at law or equity brought against such carrier. Such designation may from time to time be changed by like writing similarly filed. In the event such carrier fails to file such designation, service may be made upon any agent of such motor carrier within such State.”
Approved July 22, 1954.