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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 151. Definitions; short title
When used in this chapter and for the purposes of this chapter -
First. The term "carrier" includes any railroad subject to the
jurisdiction of the Surface Transportation Board, any express
company that would have been subject to subtitle IV of title 49, as
of December 31, 1995,,(!1) and any company which is directly or
indirectly owned or controlled by or under common control with any
carrier by railroad and which operates any equipment or facilities
or performs any service (other than trucking service) in connection
with the transportation, receipt, delivery, elevation, transfer in
transit, refrigeration or icing, storage, and handling of property
transported by railroad, and any receiver, trustee, or other
individual or body, judicial or otherwise, when in the possession
of the business of any such "carrier": Provided, however, That the
term "carrier" shall not include any street, interurban, or
suburban electric railway, unless such railway is operating as a
part of a general steam-railroad system of transportation, but
shall not exclude any part of the general steam-railroad system of
transportation now or hereafter operated by any other motive power.
The Surface Transportation Board is authorized and directed upon
request of the Mediation Board or upon complaint of any party
interested to determine after hearing whether any line operated by
electric power falls within the terms of this proviso. The term
"carrier" shall not include any company by reason of its being
engaged in the mining of coal, the supplying of coal to a carrier
where delivery is not beyond the mine tipple, and the operation of
equipment or facilities therefor, or in any of such activities.
Second. The term "Adjustment Board" means the National Railroad
Adjustment Board created by this chapter.
Third. The term "Mediation Board" means the National Mediation
Board created by this chapter.
Fourth. The term "commerce" means commerce among the several
States or between any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia
and any foreign nation, or between any Territory or the District of
Columbia and any State, or between any Territory and any other
Territory, or between any Territory and the District of Columbia,
or within any Territory or the District of Columbia, or between
points in the same State but through any other State or any
Territory or the District of Columbia or any foreign nation.
Fifth. The term "employee" as used herein includes every person
in the service of a carrier (subject to its continuing authority to
supervise and direct the manner of rendition of his service) who
performs any work defined as that of an employee or subordinate
official in the orders of the Surface Transportation Board now in
effect, and as the same may be amended or interpreted by orders
hereafter entered by the Board pursuant to the authority which is
conferred upon it to enter orders amending or interpreting such
existing orders: Provided, however, That no occupational
classification made by order of the Surface Transportation Board
shall be construed to define the crafts according to which railway
employees may be organized by their voluntary action, nor shall the
jurisdiction or powers of such employee organizations be regarded
as in any way limited or defined by the provisions of this chapter
or by the orders of the Board.
The term "employee" shall not include any individual while such
individual is engaged in the physical operations consisting of the
mining of coal, the preparation of coal, the handling (other than
movement by rail with standard railroad locomotives) of coal not
beyond the mine tipple, or the loading of coal at the tipple.
Sixth. The term "representative" means any person or persons,
labor union, organization, or corporation designated either by a
carrier or group of carriers or by its or their employees, to act
for it or them.
Seventh. The term "district court" includes the United States
District Court for the District of Columbia; and the term "court of
appeals" includes the United States Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia.
This chapter may be cited as the "Railway Labor Act."
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