[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 20, Volume 1]

[Revised as of April 1, 2005]

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

[CITE: 20CFR300.1]



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                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS

 

                  CHAPTER II--RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD

 

PART 300_DEFINITIONS--Table of Contents

 

Sec.  300.1  Words and phrases.









    Authority: Sec. 12, 52 Stat. 1107, as amended; 45 U.S.C. 362. 

Interprets or applies sec. 1, 52 Stat. 1094, as amended; 45 U.S.C. 351.





    For the purposes of the regulations in this part, except where the 

language or context indicates otherwise:

    (a) The term ``act'' means the Railroad Unemployment Insurance act.

    (b) The term ``employer'' means an employer as defined in the act 

and part 201 of this chapter.

    (c) The term ``Board'' means the Railroad Retirement Board.

    (d) The term ``person'' includes an individual, trust, estate, 

partnership, association, joint stock company, company, corporation, and 

institution.

    (e) The term ``United States'', when used in a geographical sense, 

means the States and the District of Columbia.

    (f) The term ``State'' means any of the States or the District of 

Columbia.

    (g) The term ``employment'' means service performed as an employee.

    (h) The term ``local lodges and divisions'' and the term ``local 

lodge or division'' as used in section 1(a) and 1(d), respectively, of 

the act, shall be construed to include any subordinate unit of a 

national railway labor organization defined as an ``employer'' under the 

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.



[Board Order 40-368 and Board Order 40-385, 5 FR 2717, Aug. 1, 1940, as 

amended by Board Order 68-72, 33 FR 11114, Aug. 6, 1968]