[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 14, Volume 4]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

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

[CITE: 14CFR249.2]



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                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE

 

   CHAPTER II--OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

                         (AVIATION PROCEEDINGS)

 

PART 249_PRESERVATION OF AIR CARRIER RECORDS--Table of Contents

 

                     Subpart A_General Instructions

 

Sec. 249.2  Definitions.



    For the purposes of this part:



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    Authorized representatives of the DOT means any persons, including 

special agents and auditors, designated by the DOT to perform 

inspections, audits, or examinations within the purview of the DOT's 

authority.

    Certificated air carrier means the holder of a certificate of public 

convenience and necessity issued by the Department of Transportation 

under 49 U.S.C. 41102 or a certificate for all-cargo air service issued 

by the Department of Transportation under 49 U.S.C. 41103.

    Final adjudication means the expiration date of the last possible 

period of review or reconsideration of a given case, by the DOT or by a 

court, that is provided by applicable statute or regulation.

    Open mail rate period means the time interval between the date of 

institution of a new mail rate proceeding or the start of service over a 

new route for which no mail rate has previously been fixed, and the date 

upon which a DOT order setting the final mail rate becomes legally 

effective.

    Pending case means any case that the DOT is empowered to hear before 

its final adjudication.

    Records include all documents that are related to, or constitute 

integral links in developing the history of, or facts regarding, 

financial transactions or physical operations of a particular segment, 

operating division, or entire system of the carrier's operations. The 

term includes any copy of initially prepared documents which bear 

approvals, comments, or notations which were added and are of 

significance to a full explanation of recorded facts or information. The 

term records means not only accounting records in a limited technical 

sense but all other evidentiary accounts of events such as memoranda, 

correspondence, working sheets, tabulating equipment listings punched 

cards, computer-produced listings, microfilm, and magnetic storage media 

(i.e., magnetic tapes, disks). The term records also means microform 

and/or tape reproductions of documents made as authorized by this 

subpart. In addition, the term records includes any of the above-

described materials coming into the possession of the air carrier 

through merger, consolidation, succession, transfer, or other 

acquisition.

    Supporting papers (records) means any group of documentary papers, 

such as memoranda, correspondence, working sheets, etc., that assist in 

upholding the accuracy or clarity of related records.



[ER-1214, 46 FR 25415, May 6, 1981, as amended at 60 FR 66725, Dec. 26, 

1995]