[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 49, Volume 4]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 49CFR356.1]

[Page 780]
 
                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
        CHAPTER III--FEDERAL MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY ADMINISTRATION,
                      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
 
PART 356--MOTOR CARRIER ROUTING REGULATIONS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 356.1  Authority to serve a particular area--construction.

    (a) Service at municipality. A motor carrier of property, motor 
passenger carrier of express, and freight forwarder authorized to serve 
a municipality may serve all points within that municipality's 
commercial zone not beyond the territorial limits, if any, fixed in such 
authority.
    (b) Service at unincorporated community. A motor carrier of 
property, motor passenger carrier of express, and freight forwarder, 
authorized to serve an unincorporated community having a post office of 
the same name, may serve all points in the United States not beyond the 
territorial limits, if any, fixed in such authority, as follows:
    (1) All points within 3 miles of the post office in such 
unincorporated community if it has a population of less than 2,500; 
within 4 miles if it has a population of 2,500 but less than 25,000; and 
within 6 miles if it has a population of 25,000 or more;
    (2) At all points in any municipality any part of which is within 
the limits described in paragraph (b)(1) of this section; and
    (3) At all points in any municipality wholly surrounded, or so 
surrounded except for a water boundary, by any municipality included 
under the terms of paragraph (b)(2) of this section.