Skip to content

Volume 79

Public Law 89–95

To provide for safety regulation of common carriers by pipeline under the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission, mid for other purposes.

Approved July 27, 1965

Statutory text

AN ACT

To provide for safety regulation of common carriers by pipeline under the jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission, mid for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the definition of “carrier” contained in section 831 of title 18 of the United States Code, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows;

“Unless otherwise indicated, ‘carrier’ means any person engaged in the transportation of passengers or property by land, as a common, contract, or private carrier, or freight forwarder as those terms are used in the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended, and officers, agents, and employees of finch carriers.”

Approved July 27, 1965.

Parsed from the official Statutes at Large USLM XML in 79.xml