[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: 49CFR372.241]



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                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION

 

                      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

 

PART 372_EXEMPTIONS, COMMERCIAL ZONES, AND TERMINAL AREAS--Table of 

Contents

 

                       Subpart B_Commercial Zones

 

Sec. 372.241  Commercial zones determined generally, with exceptions.



    The commercial zone of each municipality in the United States, with 

the exceptions indicated in the note at the end of this section, within 

which the transportation of passengers or property, in interstate or 

foreign commerce, when not under a common control, management, or 

arrangement for a continuous carriage or shipment to or from a point 

without such zone, is exempt from all provisions of 49 U.S.C. subtitle 

IV, part B shall be deemed to consist of:

    (a) The municipality itself, hereinafter called the base 

municipality;

    (b) All municipalities which are contiguous to the base 

municipality;

    (c) All other municipalities and all unincorporated areas within the 

United States which are adjacent to the base municipality as follows:

    (1) When the base municipality has a population less than 2,500 all 

unincorporated areas within 3 miles of its corporate limits and all of 

any other municipality any part of which is within 3 miles of the 

corporate limits of the base municipality,

    (2) When the base municipality has a population of 2,500 but less 

than 25,000 all unincorporated areas within 4 miles of its corporate 

limits and all of any other municipality any part of which is within 4 

miles of the corporate limits of the base municipality.

    (3) When the base municipality has a population of 25,000 but less 

than 100,000 all unincorporated areas within 6 miles of its corporate 

limits and all of any other municipality any part of which is within 6 

miles of the corporate limits of the base municipality, and

    (4) When the base municipality has a population of 100,000 but less 

than 200,000 all unincorporated areas within 8 miles of its corporate 

limits and all of any other municipality any part of which is within 8 

miles of the corporate limits of the base municipality.

    (5) When the base municipality has a population of 200,000 but less 

than 500,000 all unincorporated areas within 10 miles of its corporate 

limits and all of any other municipality any part of which is within 10 

miles of the corporate limits of the base municipality.

    (6) When the base municipality has a population of 500,000 but less 

than 1 million, all unincorporated areas within 15 miles of its 

corporate limits and all of any other municipality any part of which is 

within 15 miles of the corporate limits of the base municipality.

    (7) When the base municipality has a population of 1 million or 

more, all unincorporated areas within 20 miles of its corporate limits 

and all of any other municipality any part of which is within 20 miles 

of the corporate limits of the base municipality, and

    (d) All municipalities wholly surrounded, or so surrounded except 

for a water boundary, by the base municipality, by any municipality 

contiguous thereto, or by any municipality adjacent thereto which is 

included in the commercial zone of such base municipality under the 

provisions of paragraph (c) of this section.



    Note: Except: Municipalities the commercial zones of which have been 

or are hereafter individually or specially determined.



[32 FR 20048, Dec. 20, 1967, as amended at 34 FR 9870, June 26, 1969; 34 

FR 15482, Oct. 4, 1969; 41 FR 56655, Dec. 29, 1976; 62 FR 15422, Apr. 1, 

1997]