§ 5215. — Star route certification.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 39USC5215]
TITLE 39--POSTAL SERVICE
PART V--TRANSPORTATION OF MAIL
CHAPTER 52--TRANSPORTATION OF MAIL BY SURFACE CARRIER
Sec. 5215. Star route certification
(a) Any person who was a contractor under a star route, mail
messenger, or contract motor vehicle service contract on the effective
date of this section (or successor in interest to any such person),
shall, upon application to the Board for the territory within which such
contractor operated on or before the effective date of this section be
issued a certificate of public convenience and necessity as a motor
carrier for the transportation of mail by the Board without the Board's
requiring further proof that the public convenience and necessity will
be served by such operation and without further proceedings.
(b) Applications of persons who were not contractors on the
effective date of this section shall be decided in accordance with
applicable Board procedure.
(c) For purposes of this section, the term ``person'' has the same
meaning given that term under section 1 of title 1.
(Pub. L. 91-375, Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 771; Pub. L. 95-473,
Sec. 2(a)(4)(E), Oct. 17, 1978, 92 Stat. 1465; Pub. L. 104-88, title
III, Sec. 307(12)-(14), Dec. 29, 1995, 109 Stat. 946.)
References in Text
The effective date of this section, referred to in subsecs. (a) and
(b), is July 1, 1971, pursuant to Resolution No. 71-9 of the Board of
Governors. See section 15(a) of Pub. L. 91-375, set out as an Effective
Date note preceding section 101 of this title.
Amendments
1995--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 104-88 substituted ``Board'' for
``Commission'' in two places, ``motor carrier'' for ``motor common
carrier'', and ``Board's'' for ``Commission's''.
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 104-88, Sec. 307(14), substituted ``Board'' for
``Commission''.
1978--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 95-473 substituted ``motor common
carrier'' for ``motor carrier''.
Effective Date of 1995 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 104-88 effective Jan. 1, 1996, see section 2 of
Pub. L. 104-88, set out as an Effective Date note under section 701 of
Title 49, Transportation.
