[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]