2013 US Code
Title 6 - Domestic Security
Chapter 4 - TRANSPORTATION SECURITY (§§ 1101 - 1208)
Subchapter III - PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SECURITY (§§ 1131 - 1144)
Section 1131 - Definitions
| Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 1, Title 6 - DOMESTIC SECURITY |
| Category | Bills and Statutes |
| Collection | United States Code |
| SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
| Contained Within | Title 6 - DOMESTIC SECURITY CHAPTER 4 - TRANSPORTATION SECURITY SUBCHAPTER III - PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SECURITY Sec. 1131 - Definitions |
| Contains | section 1131 |
| Date | 2013 |
| Laws in Effect as of Date | January 16, 2014 |
| Positive Law | No |
| Disposition | standard |
| Short Titles | National Transit Systems Security Act of 2007, see section 1401 of Pub. L. 110-53, set out as a note under section 1101 of this title.</p> |
| Source Credit | Pub. L. 110-53, title XIV, §1402, Aug. 3, 2007, 121 Stat. 400. |
| Statutes at Large Reference | 121 Stat. 400 |
| Public Law References | Public Law 110-53 |
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For purposes of this subchapter, the following terms apply:
(1) Appropriate congressional committeesThe term “appropriate congressional committees” means the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives.
(2) DepartmentThe term “Department” means the Department of Homeland Security.
(3) Disadvantaged businesses concernsThe term “disadvantaged business concerns” means small businesses that are owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals as defined in section 1 124, title 13, Code of Federal Regulations.
(4) Frontline employeeThe term “frontline employee” means an employee of a public transportation agency who is a transit vehicle driver or operator, dispatcher, maintenance and maintenance support employee, station attendant, customer service employee, security employee, or transit police, or any other employee who has direct contact with riders on a regular basis, and any other employee of a public transportation agency that the Secretary determines should receive security training under section 1137 of this title.
(5) Public transportation agencyThe term “public transportation agency” means a publicly owned operator of public transportation eligible to receive Federal assistance under chapter 53 of title 49.
(6) SecretaryThe term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Homeland Security.
(Pub. L. 110–53, title XIV, §1402, Aug. 3, 2007, 121 Stat. 400.)
SHORT TITLEFor short title of this subchapter as the “National Transit Systems Security Act of 2007”, see section 1401 of Pub. L. 110–53, set out as a note under section 1101 of this title.
1 So in original. Probably should be “part”.
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