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49 U.S.C. § 31304 — Employer responsibilities
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**(a) In General.—** An employer may not allow an employee to operate a commercial motor vehicle in the United States during a period that the employer knows or should reasonably know that the employee—
(1) has a driver’s license revoked, suspended, or canceled by a State, has lost the right to operate a commercial motor vehicle in a State, or has been disqualified from operating a commercial motor vehicle; or
(2) has more than one driver’s license (except as allowed under [section 31302 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title49-section31302&num=0&edition=prelim)).
**(b) Driver Violation Records.—**
(1) **Periodic review.—** — Except as provided in paragraph (3), an employer shall ascertain the driving record of each driver it employs—
(A) by making an inquiry at least once every 12 months to the appropriate State agency in which the driver held or holds a commercial driver’s license or permit during such time period;
(B) by receiving occurrence-based reports of changes in the status of a driver’s record from 1 or more driver record notification systems that meet minimum standards issued by the Secretary; or
(C) by a combination of inquiries to States and reports from driver record notification systems.
(2) **Record keeping.—** — A copy of the reports received under paragraph (1) shall be maintained in the driver’s qualification file.
(3) **Exceptions to record review requirement.—** — Paragraph (1) shall not apply to a driver employed by an employer who, in any 7-day period, is employed or used as a driver by more than 1 employer—
(A) if the employer obtains the driver’s identification number, type, and issuing State of the driver’s commercial motor vehicle license; or
(B) if the information described in su
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**(a) In General.—** An employer may not allow an employee to operate a commercial motor vehicle in the United States during a period that the employer knows or should reasonably know that the employee—
(1) has a driver’s license revoked, suspended, or canceled by a State, has lost the right to operate a commercial motor vehicle in a State, or has been disqualified from operating a commercial motor vehicle; or
(2) has more than one driver’s license (except as allowed under [section 31302 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title49-section31302&num=0&edition=prelim)).
**(b) Driver Violation Records.—**
(1) **Periodic review.—** — Except as provided in paragraph (3), an employer shall ascertain the driving record of each driver it employs—
(A) by making an inquiry at least once every 12 months to the appropriate State agency in which the driver held or holds a commercial driver’s license or permit during such time period;
(B) by receiving occurrence-based reports of changes in the status of a driver’s record from 1 or more driver record notification systems that meet minimum standards issued by the Secretary; or
(C) by a combination of inquiries to States and reports from driver record notification systems.
(2) **Record keeping.—** — A copy of the reports received under paragraph (1) shall be maintained in the driver’s qualification file.
(3) **Exceptions to record review requirement.—** — Paragraph (1) shall not apply to a driver employed by an employer who, in any 7-day period, is employed or used as a driver by more than 1 employer—
(A) if the employer obtains the driver’s identification number, type, and issuing State of the driver’s commercial motor vehicle license; or
(B) if the information described in subparagraph (A) is furnished by another employer and the employer that regularly employs the driver meets the other requirements under this section.
(4) **Driver record notification system defined.—** — In this section, the term “driver record notification system” means a system that automatically furnishes an employer with a report, generated by the appropriate agency of a State, on the change in the status of an employee’s driver’s license due to a conviction for a moving violation, a failure to appear, an accident, driver’s license suspension, driver’s license revocation, or any other action taken against the driving privilege.
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**(a) Definitions.—** In this title, the following definitions apply:
(1) **Apportionment.—** — The term “apportionment” includes unexpended apportionments made under prior authorization laws.
(2) **Asset management.—** — The term “asset management” means a strategic and systematic process of operating, maintaining, and improving physical assets, with a focus on both engineering and economic analysis based upon quality information, to identify a structured sequence of maintenance, preservation, repair, rehabilitation, and replacement actions that will achieve and sustain a desired state of good repair over the lifecycle of the assets at minimum practicable cost.
(3) **Carpool project.—** — The term “carpool project” means any project to encourage the use of carpools and vanpools, including provision of carpooling opportunities to the elderly and individuals with disabilities, systems for locating potential riders and informing them of carpool opportunities, acquiring vehicles for carpool use, designating existing highway lanes as preferential carpool highway lanes, providing related traffic control devices, designating existing facilities for use for preferential parking for carpools, and real-time ridesharing projects, such as projects where drivers, using an electronic transfer of funds, recover costs directly associated with the trip provided through the use of location technology to quantify those direct costs, subject to the condition that the cost recovered does not exceed the cost of the trip provided.
(4) **Construction.—** — The term “construction” means the supervising, inspecting, actual building, and incurrence of all costs incidental to the construction or reconstruction of a highway or any project eligible for assistance under this title, including bon
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No individual shall operate a commercial motor vehicle without a valid commercial driver’s license issued in accordance with section 31308. An individual operating a commercial motor vehicle may have only one driver’s license at any time and may have only one learner’s permit at any time.
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**(a) Financial Assistance Program.—**
(1) **In general.—** — The Secretary of Transportation shall administer a financial assistance program for commercial driver’s license program implementation for the purposes described in paragraphs (2) and (3).
(2) **State commercial driver’s license program implementation grants.—** — In carrying out the program, the Secretary may make a grant to a State agency in a fiscal year—
(A) to assist the State in complying with the requirements of section 31311; and
(B) in the case of a State that is making a good faith effort toward substantial compliance with the requirements of section 31311, to improve the State’s implementation of its commercial driver’s license program, including expenses—
(i) for computer hardware and software;
(ii) for publications, testing, personnel, training, and quality control;
(iii) for commercial driver’s license program coordinators; and
(iv) to implement or maintain a system to notify an employer of an operator of a commercial motor vehicle of the suspension or revocation of the operator’s commercial driver’s license consistent with the standards developed under section 32303(b) of the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Enhancement Act of 2012 ([49 U.S.C. 31304](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title49-section31304&num=0&edition=prelim) note).
(3) **Priority activities.—** — The Secretary may make a grant to or enter into a cooperative agreement with a State agency, local government, or any person in a fiscal year for research, development and testing, demonstration projects, public education, and other special activities and projects relating to commercial drivers licensing and motor vehicle safety that—
(A) benefit all jurisdictions of the United
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TITLE 49—TRANSPORTATION
§ 31304
§ 31304. Employer responsibilities
(a) IN GENERAL.—An employer may not allow
an employee to operate a commercial motor ve-
hicle in the United States during a period that
the employer knows or should reasonably know
that the employee—
(1) has a driver’s license revoked, suspended,
or canceled by a State, has lost the right to
operate a commercial motor vehicle in a
State, or has been disqualified from operating
a commercial motor vehicle; or
(2) has more than one driver’s license (except
as allowed under section 31302 of this title).
(b) DRIVER VIOLATION RECORDS.—
(1) PERIODIC REVIEW.—Except as provided in
paragraph (3), an employer shall ascertain the
driving record of each driver it employs—
(A) by making an inquiry at least once
every 12 months to the appropriate State
agency in which the driver held or holds a
commercial driver’s license or permit during
such time period;
(B) by receiving occurrence-based reports
of changes in the status of a driver’s record
from 1 or more driver record notification
systems that meet minimum standards
issued by the Secretary; or
(C) by a combination of inquiries to States
and reports from driver record notification
systems.
(2) RECORD KEEPING.—A copy of the reports
received under paragraph (1) shall be main-
tained in the driver’s qualification file.
(3) EXCEPTIONS TO RECORD REVIEW REQUIRE-
MENT.—Paragraph (1) shall not apply to a driv-
er employed by an employer who, in any 7-day
period, is employed or used as a driver by
more than 1 employer—
(A) if the employer obtains the driver’s
identification number, type, and issuing
State of the driver’s commercial motor vehi-
cle license; or
(B) if the information described in sub-
paragraph (A) is furnished by another
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