49 U.S.C. § 10102 : US Code - Section 10102: Definitions

Search 49 U.S.C. § 10102 : US Code - Section 10102: Definitions

In this part -
(1) "Board" means the Surface Transportation Board;
(2) "car service" includes (A) the use, control, supply,
movement, distribution, exchange, interchange, and return of
locomotives, cars, other vehicles, and special types of equipment
used in the transportation of property by a rail carrier, and (B)
the supply of trains by a rail carrier;
(3) "control", when referring to a relationship between
persons, includes actual control, legal control, and the power to
exercise control, through or by (A) common directors, officers,
stockholders, a voting trust, or a holding or investment company,
or (B) any other means;
(4) "person", in addition to its meaning under section 1 of
title 1, includes a trustee, receiver, assignee, or personal
representative of a person;
(5) "rail carrier" means a person providing common carrier
railroad transportation for compensation, but does not include
street, suburban, or interurban electric railways not operated as
part of the general system of rail transportation;
(6) "railroad" includes -
(A) a bridge, car float, lighter, ferry, and intermodal
equipment used by or in connection with a railroad;
(B) the road used by a rail carrier and owned by it or
operated under an agreement; and
(C) a switch, spur, track, terminal, terminal facility, and a
freight depot, yard, and ground, used or necessary for
transportation;
(7) "rate" means a rate or charge for transportation;
(8) "State" means a State of the United States and the District
of Columbia;
(9) "transportation" includes -
(A) a locomotive, car, vehicle, vessel, warehouse, wharf,
pier, dock, yard, property, facility, instrumentality, or
equipment of any kind related to the movement of passengers or
property, or both, by rail, regardless of ownership or an
agreement concerning use; and
(B) services related to that movement, including receipt,
delivery, elevation, transfer in transit, refrigeration, icing,
ventilation, storage, handling, and interchange of passengers
and property; and
(10) "United States" means the States of the United States and
the District of Columbia.