Title 49 — Transportation
Part A · Chapter 109 — Licensing
§ 10910. Effect on other statutes and authorities
Statutory text
Nothing in section 10908 or 10909 is intended to affect the traditional police powers of the State to require a rail carrier to comply with State and local environmental, public health, and public safety standards that are not unreasonably burdensome to interstate commerce and do not discriminate against rail carriers.
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.
Clean Railroads Act of 2008
Pub. L. 110–432 div. A title VI § 605(a) · 122 Stat. 4848
Enacted · 49 U.S.C. § 10910
(Added Pub. L. 110–432, div. A, title VI, § 605(a), Oct. 16, 2008, 122 Stat. 4905.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Added Pub. L. 110–432, div. A, title VI, § 605(a), Oct. 16, 2008, 122 Stat. 4905.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(a) In General.— Chapter 109, as amended by section 604, is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following: “§ 10910. Effect on other statutes and authorities “Nothing in section 10908 or 10909 is intended to affect the traditional police powers of the State to require a rail carrier to comply with State and local environmental, public health, and public safety standards that are not unreasonably burdensome to interstate commerce and do not discriminate against rail carriers.” .
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Prior Provisions
For prior section 10910, see note set out under section 10907 of this title.
Credits
(Added Pub. L. 110–432, div. A, title VI, § 605(a), , 122 Stat. 4905.)