[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 49, Volume 5]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 49CFR356.1]



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                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION

 

                      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

 

PART 356_MOTOR CARRIER ROUTING REGULATIONS--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 356.1  Authority to serve a particular area--construction.









Sec.

356.1 Authority to serve a particular area--construction.

356.3 Regular route motor passenger service.

356.5 Traversal authority.

356.7 Tacking.

356.9 Elimination of routing restrictions--regular route carriers.

356.11 Elimination of gateways--regular and irregular route carriers.

356.13 Redesignated highways.



    Authority: 5 U.S.C. 553; 49 U.S.C. 13301 and 13902; and 49 CFR 1.73.



    Source: 62 FR 32041, June 12, 1997, unless otherwise noted.



    Editorial Note: Nomenclature changes to part 356 appear at 66 FR 

49870, Oct. 1, 2001.





    (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.