[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 49, Volume 5]
[Revised as of October 1, 2007]
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

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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]