[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 49, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 49CFR71.1]

[Page 702]
 
                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
          Subtitle A--Office of the Secretary of Transportation
 
PART 71_STANDARD TIME ZONE BOUNDARIES--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  71.1  Limits defined; exceptions authorized for certain rail operating 
purposes only.

    (a) This part prescribes the geographic limits of each of the eight 
standard time zones established by section 1 of the Standard Time Act, 
as amended by section 4 of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15 U.S.C. 261). 
It also contains lists of operating exceptions granted for specified 
rail carriers, whose operations cross the time zone boundaries 
prescribed by this part, authorizing them to carry the standard of time 
on which the major portion of a particular operation is conducted into 
an adjoining time zone.
    (b) Any rail carrier whose operations cross a time zone boundary 
prescribed by this part may apply for an operating exception to the 
General Counsel, Department of Transportation, Washington, DC 20590. 
However, each rail carrier for which an operating exception is granted 
shall, in its advertisements, time cards, station bulletin boards, and 
other publications, show arrival and departure times in terms of the 
standard time for the place concerned.
    (c) The time zones established by the Standard Time Zone Act, as 
amended by the Uniform Time Act of 1966, are Atlantic, eastern, central, 
mountain, Pacific, Alaska, Hawaii-Aleutian, and Samoa.

[Amdt. 71-11, 35 FR 12318, Aug. 1, 1970, as amended by Amdt. 71-21, 52 
FR 41631, Nov. 18, 1986]