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PUBLIC LAW 86-661-JULY 14, 1960

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Public Law 86-661 AN ACT To provide that the Civil Aeronautics Board may temporarily authorize certain air carriers to engage in supplemental air transportation, and for other purposes.

July 14^ 1960 [H. R. 7593]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Air carriers. United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Civil Aero- Supplemental air nautics Board (hereafter in this Act referred to as the "Board") is tr^sportauon, empowered— (1) to validate for a period not to exceed twenty months from the date of enactment of this Act, without further proceedings, any temporary certificate of public convenience and necessity for supplemental air transportation issued pursuant to Board Order E-13436 of January 28, 1959, or Board Order E-14196 of July 8^ 1959, which certificate has not been revoked or otherwise ter,^ minated by the Board on or before the date of enactment of this Act; and (2) to confer interim operating authority to engage in supplemental air transportation for a period not to exceed twenty months from the date of enactment of this Act upon any person or air carrier which (A) has operated in interstate air transportation as a supplemental air carrier pursuant to authority granted under Board Order £-9744 of November 15, 1955, or (B) has an application for a certificate as a supplemental air carrier pending before the Board on the date of enactment of this Act. SEC. 2. (a) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to affect the authority of the Board— (1) to maintain any enforcement or compliance proceeding or action against the holder of a certificate of public convenience and necessity issued pursuant to Board Order E-13436 of January 28, 1959, or Board Order E-14196 of July 8, 1959, or against the holder of any operating authority conferred under Board Order E-9744 of November 15, 1955, which proceeding or action is pending before the Board on the date of enactment of this Act; or (2) to institute, on or after the date of enactment of this Act, any enforcement or compliance proceeding or action against the holder of any certificate or operating authority referred to in paragraph (1) of this subsection with respect to any violation of (A) the provisions of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, (B) the J2 stau 73u ^ provisions of such certificate, (C) the terms of such operating au- note. thority, or (D) the regulations of the Board, without regard to when such violation occurred. Any sanction which the Board lawfully could have imposed on the operating authority of an air carrier for any violation referred to in paragraph (2) of this subsection which occurred before the validation of a certificate of public convenience and necessity for, or before the conferring of any operating authority for, supplemental air transportation under this Act, may be imposed on the operating authority of such air carrier granted under paragraphs (1) or (2) of the first section of this Act. (b) The authority granted to the Board under this Act shall not affect any other authority of the Board to license air carriers to engage in supplemental air transportation.

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