[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 20, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2005]
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[CITE: 20CFR201.1]

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                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
                  CHAPTER II--RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD
 
PART 201_DEFINITIONS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 201.1  Words and phrases.




    Authority: Secs. 1, 10, 50 Stat. 307, as amended, 314, as amended; 
45 U.S.C. 228a, 228j.


    For the purposes of the regulations in this chapter, except where 
the language or context indicates otherwise:
    (a) Act. The term ``act,'' or ``1937 act'' means the Railroad 
Retirement Act of 1937 (50 Stat. 307; 45 U.S.C. chapter 9). The term 
``1935 act,'' means the Railroad Retirement Act of 1935 (49 Stat. 967; 
45 U.S.C. chapter 9).
    (b) Employer. The term ``employer'' means an employer as defined in 
the act and part 202 of this chapter.
    (c) Employee. The term ``employee'' means an employee as defined in 
the act and part 203 of this chapter.
    (d) Service. The term ``service'' means service as defined in the 
act and part 220 of this chapter.
    (e) Compensation. The term ``compensation'' means compensation as 
defined in the act and part 222 of this chapter.
    (f) Board. The term ``Board'' means the Railroad Retirement Board.
    (g) Company. The term ``company'' means a partnership, association, 
joint stock company, corporation, or institution.
    (h) United States. The term ``United States'' where used in a 
geographical sense means the States and the District of Columbia.
    (i) Carrier. The term ``carrier'' means an express company, 
sleeping-car company, or carrier by railroad, subject to part I of the 
Interstate Commerce Act (24 Stat. 379; 49 U.S.C. chapter 1).
    (j) Person. The term ``person'' includes an individual, trust, 
estate, partnership, association, joint stock company, company, 
corporation, and institution.
    (k) General Committee. The term ``General Committee'' as used in 
section 1 of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937 (50 Stat. 307; 45 
U.S.C., Sup., 228a) is construed to include any subordinate unit of a 
national railway labor organization, defined as an employer in the 1937 
act, regardless of the title or designation of such unit, which, under 
the constitution and bylaws of the organization of which it is a unit, 
is properly authorized to and does represent that organization on all of 
a particular railroad or on a substantial portion thereof (such as on 
that portion of a railroad under the jurisdiction of the general 
manager) in negotiating with the management of that railroad with 
respect to the wages and working conditions of the employees represented 
by such organization.
    (l) Local lodges and divisions; local lodge or division. The term 
``local lodges and divisions'' and the term ``local lodge or division'' 
as used in section 1(a) and 1(b), respectively, of the 1937 act, shall 
be construed to include any subordinate unit of a national railway labor 
organization defined as an ``employer'' under the 1937 act, which unit 
functions in the same manner as, or similar to ``local lodges'' as that 
term is ordinarily used, irrespective of the designation of such unit by 
its national organization.

[4 FR 1477, Apr. 7, 1939, as amended by Board Order 40-367, 5 FR 2717, 
Aug. 1, 1940; Board Order 59-190, 24 FR 9083, Nov. 7, 1959]