{"data":{"id":"us/49-u.s.c.-28501","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"49 U.S.C. § 28501","heading":"Definitions","body":"In this chapter—(1) the term “Board” means the Surface Transportation Board; (2) the term “capital work” means maintenance, restoration, reconstruction, capacity enhancement, or rehabilitation work on trackage that would be treated, in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, as a capital item rather than an expense; (3) the term “commuter rail passenger transportation” has the meaning given that term in section 24102; (4) the term “public transportation authority” means a local governmental authority (as defined in section 5302) established to provide, or make a contract providing for, commuter rail passenger transportation; (5) the term “rail carrier” means a person, other than a governmental authority, providing common carrier railroad transportation for compensation subject to the jurisdiction of the Board under chapter 105; (6) the term “segregated fixed guideway facility” means a fixed guideway facility constructed within the railroad right-of-way of a rail carrier but physically separate from trackage, including relocated trackage, within the right-of-way used by a rail carrier for freight transportation purposes; and (7) the term “trackage” means a railroad line of a rail carrier, including a spur, industrial, team, switching, side, yard, or station track, and a facility of a rail carrier.","path":["Title 49—TRANSPORTATION","CHAPTER 285—COMMUTER RAIL MEDIATION"],"source_url":"https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/103/xml_usc49@119-103.zip","current_through":"Public Law 119-103 (09/02/2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-10T06:01:06Z","sha256":"cd315ef84c6b6c684622cededf2f1f3c1318deb65b098b0c38c62e0cd2f57f4d","source_id":"us","stale":false,"prev":"us/49-u.s.c.-28302","next":"us/49-u.s.c.-28502"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}