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Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions

Chapter 4 — Puerto Rico

§ 751. Interstate commerce and certain other laws inapplicable to Puerto Rico

Statutory text

Subtitle IV of title 49, and the Safety Appliance Acts and the several amendments made or to be made thereto, shall not apply to Puerto Rico.

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. Pub. L. 64–145 § 38 · 39 Stat. 226

    Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 751

    Mar. 2, 1917, ch. 145, § 38, 39 Stat. 964

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Mar. 2, 1917, ch. 145, § 38, 39 Stat. 964

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Safety Appliance Acts, referred to in text, are acts Mar. 2, 1893, ch. 196, 27 Stat. 531; Mar. 2, 1903, ch. 976, 32 Stat. 943; and Apr. 14, 1910, ch. 160, 36 Stat. 298, which were classified to sections 1 to 16 of Title 45, Railroads, and were repealed and reenacted in sections 20102, 20301 to 20304, 21302, and 21304 of Title 49, Transportation, by Pub. L. 103–272, §§ 1(e), 7(b), , 108 Stat. 863, 881, 892, 893, 1379, the first section of which enacted subtitles II, III, and V to X of Title 49. Section 6 of act , which was classified to section 15 of Title 45, was repealed and reenacted as section 501(b) of Title 49 by Pub. L. 97–449, , 96 Stat. 2413.

Codification

“Subtitle IV of title 49” substituted in text for “The Interstate Commerce Act and the several amendments made or to be made thereto [49 U.S.C. 1 et seq.]” and “the Act of Congress entitled ‘An Act to amend an Act entitled “An Act to regulate commerce,” approved , and all Acts amendatory thereof, by providing for a valuation of the several classes of property of carriers subject thereto and securing information concerning their stocks, bonds, and other securities,’ approved [49 U.S.C. 19a]” on authority of Pub. L. 95–473, § 3(b), , 92 Stat. 1466, the first section of which enacted subtitle IV (§ 10101 et seq.) of Title 49, Transportation.

Section is comprised of second paragraph of section 38 of act . The first and third paragraphs of section 38 were classified to sections 750 and 753, respectively, of this title.

Amendments

1927—Act , reenacted section without change.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

“Puerto Rico” substituted in text for “Porto Rico” pursuant to act , which is classified to section 731a of this title.

Credits

1917–1932 · 3 acts
  1. 1917Mar. 2, 1917, ch. 145, § 38, 39 Stat. 964
  2. 1927Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 503, § 6, 44 Stat. 1421
  3. 1932May 17, 1932, ch. 190, 47 Stat. 158.
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(Mar. 2, 1917, ch. 145, § 38, 39 Stat. 964; Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 503, § 6, 44 Stat. 1421; May 17, 1932, ch. 190, 47 Stat. 158.)

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