Title 45 — Railroads
Chapter 19 — Rock Island Railroad Employee Assistance
§ 1009. Expedited proceedings
Statutory text
The Commission shall give all proceedings involving the Rock Island Railroad preference over all other pending proceedings related to rail carriers and make all of its decisions at the earliest practicable time.
The Commission shall, within 100 days of the filing of an application (or such shorter period as the court may set) pursuant to section 915 of this title, reach a decision on all proceedings filed after , which involve a sale, transfer or lease of any line of the Rock Island Railroad to a solvent carrier.
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.
Rock Island Railroad Transition and Employee Assistance Act
Pub. L. 96–254 title I § 111 · 94 Stat. 399
Enacted · 45 U.S.C. § 1009
(Pub. L. 96–254, title I, § 111, May 30, 1980, 94 Stat. 404.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 96–254, title I, § 111, May 30, 1980, 94 Stat. 404.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 111. expedited proceedings (a) The Commission shall give all proceedings involving the Rock Island Railroad preference over all other pending proceedings related to rail carriers and make all of its decisions at the earliest practicable time. (b) The Commission shall, within 100 days of the filing of an application (or such shorter period as the court may set) pursuant to section 17 of the Milwaukee Railroad Restructuring Act (45 U.S.C. 93 Stat. 744. 915), reach a decision on all proceedings filed after January 1, 1980, which involve a sale, transfer or lease of any line of the Rock Island Railroad to a solvent carrier.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Abolition of Interstate Commerce Commission and Transfer of Functions
Interstate Commerce Commission abolished and functions of Commission transferred, except as otherwise provided in Pub. L. 104–88, to Surface Transportation Board effective , by section 1302 of Title 49, Transportation, and section 101 of Pub. L. 104–88, set out as a note under section 1301 of Title 49. References to Interstate Commerce Commission deemed to refer to Surface Transportation Board, a member or employee of the Board, or Secretary of Transportation, as appropriate, see section 205 of Pub. L. 104–88, set out as a note under section 1301 of Title 49.