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Source location: Title 45, Chapter 8, § 151; chapter-008-railway-labor.md
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§ 151. Definitions; short title
When used in this chapter and for the purposes
of this chapter—
First. The term ‘‘carrier’’ includes any rail-
road subject to the jurisdiction of the Surface
Transportation Board, any express company
that would have been subject to subtitle IV of
title 49, as of December 31, 1995,,1 and any com-
pany which is directly or indirectly owned or
controlled by or under common control with any
carrier by railroad and which operates any
equipment or facilities or performs any service
(other than trucking service) in connection with
the transportation, receipt, delivery, elevation,
transfer in transit, refrigeration or icing, stor-
age, and handling of property transported by
railroad, and any receiver, trustee, or other in-
dividual or body, judicial or otherwise, when in
the possession of the business of any such ‘‘car-
rier’’: Provided, however, That the term ‘‘carrier’’
shall not include any street, interurban, or sub-
urban electric railway, unless such railway is
operating as a part of a general steam-railroad
system of transportation, but shall not exclude
any part of the general steam-railroad system of
transportation now or hereafter operated by any
other motive power. The Surface Transportation
Board is authorized and directed upon request of
the Mediation Board or upon complaint of any
party interested to determine after hearing
whether any line operated by electric power
falls within the terms of this proviso. The term
‘‘carrier’’ shall not include any company by rea-
son of its being engaged in the mining of coal,
the supplying of coal to a carrier where delivery
is not beyond the mine tipple, and the operation
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of equipment or facilities therefor, or in any of
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