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Title 1 — General Provisions

Chapter 1 — Rules of Construction

§ 4. “Vehicle” as including all means of land transportation

Statutory text

The word “vehicle” includes every description of carriage or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on land.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. 1 U. S. C., § —

    Pub. L. 80–388 · 61 Stat. 633

    Enacted · 1 U.S.C. § 4

    (July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 633.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 633.)

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Credits

(July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 633.)

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