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 96 STAT. 2438

PUBLIC LAW 97-449—JAN. 12, 1983 PART EMRESERVED—AVIATION] PART E—[RESERVED—AVIATION FACILITIES AND NOISE ABATEMENT] PART F-[RESERVED—MISCELLANEOUS]

[PARTS A AND B—RESERVED] PART C—MOTOR VEHICLES CHAPTER 31—MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY Sec. 3101. Definitions. 3102. Requirements for qualifications, hours of service, safety, and equipment standards. 3103. Research, investigation, and testing. 3104. Identification of motor vehicles.

49 USC 3101

49 USC 10102. 49 USC 10521.

49 USC 3102. 49 USC 10521, 10522.

§ 3101. Definitions In this chapter— (1) "migrant worker" means an individual going to or from emplo3ment in agriculture as defined in section 3121(g) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (26 U.S.C. 3121(g)) or section 203(0 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 203(f)). (2) "motor carrier", "motor common carrier", "motor private carrier", "motor vehicle", and "United States" have the same meanings given those terms in section 10102 of this title. (3) "motor carrier of migrant workers" means a person (except a motor common carrier) providing transportation referred to in section 10521(a) of this title by a motor vehicle (except a pgissenger automobile or station wagon) for at least 3 migrant workers at a time to or from their employment, but the term does not include a migrant worker providing trsinsportation for migrant workers and their immediate families. § 3102. Requirements for qualiflcations, hours of service, safety, and equipment standards (a) This section applies to transportation— (1) described in sections 10521 and 10522 of this title; and (2) to the extent the transportation is in the United States and is between places in a foreign country, or between a place in a foreign country and a place in another foreign country. (b) The Secretary of Transportation may prescribe requirements for— (1) qualifications and maximum hours of service of employees of, and safety of operation and equipment of, a motor carrier; and (2) qualifications and maximum hours of service of employees of, and standards of equipment of, a motor private carrier, when needed to promote safety of operation. (c) The Secretary may prescribe requirements for the comfort of passengers, qualifications and maximum hours of service of operators, and safety of operation and equipment of a motor carrier of migrant workers. The requirements only apply to a carrier transporting a migrant worker—

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