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Title 49 — Transportation

Chapter 59 — Intermodal Safe Container Transportation

§ 5907. Effective date

Statutory text

This chapter shall take effect 180 days after the date of enactment of the Intermodal Safe Container Transportation Amendments Act of 1996.

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. § 5907

    Pub. L. 103–272, § 1(d), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 862

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 103–272, § 1(d), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 862

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

  2. Intermodal Safe Container Transportation Amendments Act of 1996

    Pub. L. 104–291 title II § 208(a) · 110 Stat. 3452

    1. Substituted · 49 U.S.C. § 5907

      Pub. L. 104–291 substituted “Effective date” for “Regulations and effective date” in section catchline

    2. Amended · 49 U.S.C. § 5907

      Pub. L. 104–291 amended text generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows:

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 104–291 substituted “Effective date” for “Regulations and effective date” in section catchline and amended text generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows:

    “(a) Regulations.—Not later than July 25, 1993, the Secretary of Transportation shall prescribe final regulations to enforce this chapter. The Secretary may establish by regulation exemptions to the regulations that are in the public interest and consistent with the purposes of this chapter. “(b) Effective Date.—This chapter is effective on the date final regulations to enforce this chapter are prescribed.”

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (a) In General.— Section 5907 (relating to regulations and effective date) is amended to read as follows: “§ 5907. Effective date “This chapter shall take effect 180 days after the date of enactment of the Intermodal Safe Container Transportation Amendments Act of 1996 ”.

3 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Notes

historicalAndRevision
Historical and Revision Notes
RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large)
5907(a)49:508 (note).Oct. 28, 1992, Pub. L. 102–548, § 2(d), 106 Stat. 3649.
5907(b)49:508(a)(3) (related to effective date).

In subsection (a), the words “shall initiate a proceeding to issue regulations . . . within 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act” are omitted as executed.

Subsection (b) is substituted for the source provision and made applicable to the entire chapter for clarity.

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The date of enactment of the Intermodal Safe Container Transportation Amendments Act of 1996, referred to in text, is the date of enactment of Pub. L. 104–291, which was approved .

Amendments

1996—Pub. L. 104–291 substituted “Effective date” for “Regulations and effective date” in section catchline and amended text generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows:

“(a) Regulations.—Not later than , the Secretary of Transportation shall prescribe final regulations to enforce this chapter. The Secretary may establish by regulation exemptions to the regulations that are in the public interest and consistent with the purposes of this chapter.

“(b) Effective Date.—This chapter is effective on the date final regulations to enforce this chapter are prescribed.”

Credits

1994–1996 · 2 acts
  1. 1994Pub. L. 103–272, § 1(d), , 108 Stat. 862
  2. 1996Pub. L. 104–291, title II, § 208(a), , 110 Stat. 3457.
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(Pub. L. 103–272, § 1(d), , 108 Stat. 862; Pub. L. 104–291, title II, § 208(a), , 110 Stat. 3457.)

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