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/us/usc/t49/s20116 | 49 U.S.C. § 20116 | 49 | TRANSPORTATION | false | § 20116. | 20116 | Rulemaking process | null | § 20116. Rulemaking process
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(a) General.—
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(a) General.—
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(a) In General.—
(1) Program requirement.—
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(a) Findings.—
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(a) In General.—
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(a) In General.—
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(a) General.—
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(a) In General.—
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(a) Penalty.—
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(a) Penalty.—
(1) Subject to section 21304 of this title, a person violating chapter 211 of this title, including section 21103 (as such section was in effect on the day before the date of enactment of the Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008), or violating any provision of a waiver appli... | <section xmlns="http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" style="-uslm-lc:I80" id="id3db95157-7fa1-11ec-9118-e82f24c6522f" identifier="/us/usc/t49/s21303"><num value="21303">§ 21303.<... | (Pub. L. 103–272, § 1(e), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 892; Pub. L. 103–440, title II, § 204, Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4620; Pub. L. 104–287, § 5(54), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3393; Pub. L. 110–432, div. A, title I, § 108(e)(2)(B), title III, § 302(c), Oct. 16, 2008, 122 Stat. 4866, 4878.) | [
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