[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 20, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 20CFR300.1]

[Page 538]
 
                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
                  CHAPTER II--RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD
 
PART 300_DEFINITIONS--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  300.1  Words and phrases.

    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]