Title 6 — Domestic Security
Part D · Chapter 4 — Transportation Security
§ 1206. Use of transportation security card in hazmat licensing
Statutory text
Background check
An individual who has a valid transportation employee identification card issued by the Secretary under section 70105 of title 46 shall be deemed to have met the background records check required under section 5103a of title 49.
State review
Nothing in this section prevents or preempts a State from conducting a criminal records check of an individual that has applied for a license to operate a motor vehicle transporting in commerce a hazardous material.
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.
Pub. L. 110–53 title XV § 1556(b) · 121 Stat. 266
Enacted · 6 U.S.C. § 1206
(Pub. L. 110–53, title XV, § 1556(b), Aug. 3, 2007, 121 Stat. 475.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 110–53, title XV, § 1556(b), Aug. 3, 2007, 121 Stat. 475.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(b) Relationship to Transportation Security Cards.— (1) Background check.— An individual who has a valid transportation employee identification card issued by the Secretary under section 70105 of title 46, United States Code, shall be deemed to have met the background records check required under section 5103a of title 49, United States Code. (2) State review.— Nothing in this subsection prevents or preempts a State from conducting a criminal records check of an individual that has applied for a license to operate a motor vehicle transporting in commerce a hazardous material.
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