§ 40. Commercial motor vehicles required to stop for inspections

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. 2005

   Motor Carrier Safety Reauthorization Act of 2005

   Pub. L. 109–59 title IV § 4143(a) · 119 Stat. 1144

   Enacted · 18 U.S.C. § 40

   Added Pub. L. 109–59, title IV, § 4143(a), Aug. 10, 2005, 119 Stat. 1747, § 39

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Added Pub. L. 109–59, title IV, § 4143(a), Aug. 10, 2005, 119 Stat. 1747, § 39

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (a) In General.— Chapter 2 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following: “§ 39. Commercial motor vehicles required to stop for inspections “(a) A driver of a commercial motor vehicle (as defined in section 31132 of title 49) shall stop and submit to inspection of the vehicle, driver, cargo, and required records when directed to do so by an authorized employee of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration of the Department of Transportation, at or in the vicinity of an inspection site. The driver shall not leave the inspection site until authorized to do so by an authorized employee. “(b) Penalty. A driver of a commercial motor vehicle, as defined in subsection (a), who knowingly fails to stop for inspection when directed to do so by an authorized employee of the Administration at or in the vicinity of an inspection site, or leaves the inspection site without authorization, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both.” .

2. 2008

   SAFETEA–LU Technical Corrections Act of 2008

   Pub. L. 110–244 title III § 301(j) · 122 Stat. 1572

   Changed · 18 U.S.C. § 40

   Pub. L. 110–244 renumbered section 39 of this title, relating to inspection of commercial vehicles, as this section

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 110–244 renumbered section 39 of this title, relating to inspection of commercial vehicles, as this section.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (j) Redesignation of Section.— The second section 39 of chapter 2 of title 18, United States Code, relating to commercial motor vehicles required to stop for inspections, and the item relating to such section in the analysis for such chapter, are redesignated as section 40.

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