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49 U.S.C. § 31103 — Commercial motor vehicle operators grant program
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**(a) In General.—** The Secretary shall administer a commercial motor vehicle operators grant program funded under section 31104.
**(b) Purpose.—** The purpose of the grant program is to train individuals in the safe operation of commercial motor vehicles (as defined in section 31301).
**(c) Veterans.—** In administering grants under this section, the Secretary shall award priority to grant applications for programs to train former members of the armed forces (as defined in [section 101 of title 10](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section101&num=0&edition=prelim)) in the safe operation of such vehicles.
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**(a) In General.—** The Secretary shall administer a commercial motor vehicle operators grant program funded under section 31104.
**(b) Purpose.—** The purpose of the grant program is to train individuals in the safe operation of commercial motor vehicles (as defined in section 31301).
**(c) Veterans.—** In administering grants under this section, the Secretary shall award priority to grant applications for programs to train former members of the armed forces (as defined in [section 101 of title 10](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section101&num=0&edition=prelim)) in the safe operation of such vehicles.
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**(a) In General.—** The Secretary of Transportation shall administer a motor carrier safety assistance program funded under section 31104.
**(b) Goal.—** The goal of the program is to ensure that the Secretary, States, local governments, other political jurisdictions, federally recognized Indian tribes, and other persons work in partnership to establish programs to improve motor carrier, commercial motor vehicle, and driver safety to support a safe and efficient surface transportation system by—
(1) making targeted investments to promote safe commercial motor vehicle transportation, including the transportation of passengers and hazardous materials;
(2) investing in activities likely to generate maximum reductions in the number and severity of commercial motor vehicle crashes and in fatalities resulting from such crashes;
(3) adopting and enforcing effective motor carrier, commercial motor vehicle, and driver safety regulations and practices consistent with Federal requirements; and
(4) assessing and improving statewide performance by setting program goals and meeting performance standards, measures, and benchmarks.
**(c) State Plans.—**
(1) **In general.—** — In carrying out the program, the Secretary shall prescribe procedures for a State to submit a multiple-year plan, and annual updates thereto, under which the State agrees to assume responsibility for improving motor carrier safety by adopting and enforcing State regulations, standards, and orders that are compatible with the regulations, standards, and orders of the Federal Government on commercial motor vehicle safety and hazardous materials transportation safety.
(2) **Contents.—** — The Secretary shall approve a State plan if the Secretary determines that the plan is adequate to comply with the require
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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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**(a) Motor Carrier Generally.—**
(1) **In general.—** — Except as otherwise provided in this section, the Secretary of Transportation shall register a person to provide transportation subject to jurisdiction under subchapter I of chapter 135 as a motor carrier using self-propelled vehicles the motor carrier owns, rents, or leases only if the Secretary determines that the person—
(A) is willing and able to comply with—
(i) this part and the applicable regulations of the Secretary and the Board;
(ii) any safety regulations imposed by the Secretary;
(iii) the duties of employers and employees established by the Secretary under section 31135;
(iv) the safety fitness requirements established by the Secretary under section 31144;
(v) the accessibility requirements established by the Secretary under subpart H of part 37 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations), for transportation provided by an over-the-road bus; and
(vi) the minimum financial responsibility requirements established by the Secretary under sections 13906, 31138, and 31139;
(B) has been issued a USDOT number under section 31134;
(C) has disclosed any relationship involving common ownership, common management, common control, or common familial relationship between that person and any other motor carrier, freight forwarder, or broker, or any other applicant for motor carrier, freight forwarder, or broker registration, if the relationship occurred in the 3-year period preceding the date of the filing of the application for registration; and
(D) after the Secretary establishes a written proficiency examination pursuant to section 32101(b) of the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Enhancement Act of 2012, has passed the written proficiency examinati
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**(a) In General.—** The following definitions apply in this title:
(1) The term “United States”, in a geographic sense, means the States and the District of Columbia.
(2) Repealed. Pub. L. 109–163, div. A, title X, § 1057(a)(1), Jan. 6, 2006, 119 Stat. 3440.]
(3) The term “possessions” includes the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Guano Islands, so long as they remain possessions, but does not include any Commonwealth.
(4) The term “armed forces” means the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, and Coast Guard.
(5) The term “uniformed services” means—
(A) the armed forces;
(B) the commissioned corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; and
(C) the commissioned corps of the Public Health Service.
(6) The term “department”, when used with respect to a military department, means the executive part of the department and all field headquarters, forces, reserve components, installations, activities, and functions under the control or supervision of the Secretary of the department. When used with respect to the Department of Defense, such term means the executive part of the department, including the executive parts of the military departments, and all field headquarters, forces, reserve components, installations, activities, and functions under the control or supervision of the Secretary of Defense, including those of the military departments.
(7) The term “executive part of the department” means the executive part of the Department of Defense, Department of the Army, Department of the Navy, or Department of the Air Force, as the case may be, at the seat of government.
(8) The term “military departments” means the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, and the Department of the Air Force.
(9) The term
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TITLE 49—TRANSPORTATION
§ 31103
the baseline maintenance of effort required of the
State by section 31102(f) of title 49, United States
Code, as amended by this subtitle, for the purpose of
establishing a new baseline maintenance of effort if
the Secretary determines that a waiver or modifica-
tion—
‘‘(A)
is
equitable
due
to
reasonable
cir-
cumstances;
‘‘(B) will ensure the continuation of commercial
motor vehicle enforcement activities in the State;
and
‘‘(C) is necessary to ensure that the total amount
of State maintenance of effort and matching ex-
penditures required under sections 31102 and 31104 of
title 49, United States Code, as amended by this
subtitle, does not exceed a sum greater than the av-
erage of the total amount of State maintenance of
effort and matching expenditures required under
those sections for the 3 fiscal years prior to the
date of enactment of this Act.
‘‘(2) ADJUSTMENT METHODOLOGY.—If requested by a
State, the Secretary may modify the maintenance of
effort baseline referred to in paragraph (1) for the
State according to the following methodology:
‘‘(A) The Secretary shall establish the mainte-
nance of effort baseline for the State using the av-
erage baseline of fiscal years 2004 and 2005, as re-
quired by section 31102(b)(4) of title 49, United
States Code, as that section was in effect on the
day before the date of enactment of this Act.
‘‘(B) The Secretary shall calculate the average re-
quired match by a lead State commercial motor ve-
hicle safety agency for fiscal years 2013, 2014, and
2015 for motor carrier safety assistance grants es-
tablished at 20 percent by section 31103 of title 49,
United States Code, as that section was in effect on
the day before the date of enactment of this Act.
‘‘(
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