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Title 49 — Transportation

Chapter 53 — Public Transportation

§ 5306. Private enterprise participation in metropolitan planning and transportation improvement programs and relationship to other limitations

Statutory text

(a)

Private Enterprise Participation.—

A plan or program required by section 5303, 5304, or 5305 of this title shall encourage to the maximum extent feasible, as determined by local policies, criteria, and decisionmaking, the participation of private enterprise. If equipment or a facility already being used in an urban area is to be acquired under this chapter, the program shall provide that it be improved so that it will better serve the transportation needs of the area.

(b)

Relationship to Other Limitations.—

Sections 5303–5305 of this title do not authorize—

(1)

a metropolitan planning organization to impose a legal requirement on a transportation facility, provider, or project not eligible under this chapter or title 23; and

(2)

intervention in the management of a transportation authority.

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. 103–272 § 1(d) · 108 Stat. 745

    Enacted · 49 U.S.C. § 5306

    Pub. L. 103–272, § 1(d), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 795

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 103–272, § 1(d), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 795

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (d) Title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding the following immediately after subtitle I:

  2. Federal Public Transportation Act of 2005

    Pub. L. 109–59 title III § 3008 · 119 Stat. 1144

    Inserted · 49 U.S.C. § 5306(a)

    Pub. L. 109–59 inserted “, as determined by local policies, criteria, and decisionmaking,” after “feasible”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 109–59 inserted “, as determined by local policies, criteria, and decisionmaking,” after “feasible”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 3008. PRIVATE ENTERPRISE PARTICIPATION.   Section 5306(a) is amended by inserting “, as determined by local policies, criteria, and decisionmaking,” after “feasible”.

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Notes

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Historical and Revision Notes
RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large)
5306(a)49 App.:1607(o).July 9, 1964, Pub. L. 88–365, 78 Stat. 302, § 8(o); added Nov. 6, 1978, Pub. L. 95–599, § 305(b), 92 Stat. 2743; Apr. 2, 1987, Pub. L. 100–17, § 310, 101 Stat. 227; restated Dec. 18, 1991, Pub. L. 102–240, § 3012, 105 Stat. 2105.
5306(b)49 App.:1607(m).July 9, 1964, Pub. L. 88–365, 78 Stat. 302, § 8(m); added Nov. 6, 1978, Pub. L. 95–599, § 305(b), 92 Stat. 2743; Apr. 2, 1987, Pub. L. 100–17, § 310, 101 Stat. 227; restated Dec. 18, 1991, Pub. L. 102–240, § 3012, 105 Stat. 2104; Oct. 6, 1992, Pub. L. 102–388, § 502(g), 106 Stat. 1566.

In subsection (a), the words “(through modernization, extension, addition, or otherwise)” are omitted as surplus.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2005—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 109–59 inserted “, as determined by local policies, criteria, and decisionmaking,” after “feasible”.

Credits

1994–2005 · 2 acts
  1. 1994Pub. L. 103–272, § 1(d), , 108 Stat. 795
  2. 2005Pub. L. 109–59, title III, § 3008, , 119 Stat. 1568.
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(Pub. L. 103–272, § 1(d), , 108 Stat. 795; Pub. L. 109–59, title III, § 3008, , 119 Stat. 1568.)

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