§ 5306. — Private enterprise participation in metropolitan planning and transportation improvement programs and relationship to other limitations.
[Laws in effect as of January 7, 2003]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 7, 2003 and December 19, 2003]
[CITE: 49USC5306]
TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
SUBTITLE III--GENERAL AND INTERMODAL PROGRAMS
CHAPTER 53--MASS TRANSPORTATION
Sec. 5306. Private enterprise participation in metropolitan
planning and transportation improvement programs and
relationship to other limitations
(a) Private Enterprise Participation.--A plan or program required by
section 5303, 5304, or 5305 of this title shall encourage to the maximum
extent feasible the participation of private enterprise. If equipment or
a facility already being used in an urban area is to be acquired under
this chapter, the program shall provide that it be improved so that it
will better serve the transportation needs of the area.
(b) Relationship to Other Limitations.--Sections 5303-5305 of this
title do not authorize--
(1) a metropolitan planning organization to impose a legal
requirement on a transportation facility, provider, or project not
eligible under this chapter or title 23; and
(2) intervention in the management of a transportation
authority.
(Pub. L. 103-272, Sec. 1(d), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 795.)
Historical and Revision Notes
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Revised Section Source (U.S. Code) Source (Statutes at Large)
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5306(a)............................... 49 App.:1607(o). July 9, 1964, Pub. L. 88-365, 78 Stat.
302, Sec. 8(o); added Nov. 6, 1978,
Pub. L. 95-599, Sec. 305(b), 92 Stat.
2743; Apr. 2, 1987, Pub. L. 100-17,
Sec. 310, 101 Stat. 227; restated
Dec. 18, 1991, Pub. L. 102-240, Sec.
3012, 105 Stat. 2105.
5306(b)............................... 49 App.:1607(m). July 9, 1964, Pub. L. 88-365, 78 Stat.
302, Sec. 8(m); added Nov. 6, 1978,
Pub. L. 95-599, Sec. 305(b), 92 Stat.
2743; Apr. 2, 1987, Pub. L. 100-17,
Sec. 310, 101 Stat. 227; restated
Dec. 18, 1991, Pub. L. 102-240, Sec.
3012, 105 Stat. 2104; Oct. 6, 1992,
Pub. L. 102-388, Sec. 502(g), 106
Stat. 1566.
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In subsection (a), the words ``(through modernization, extension,
addition, or otherwise)'' are omitted as surplus.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 5303, 5304, 5305, 5307,
5309, 5313, 5314, 5323 of this title; title 23 section 134.
