§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, §2(a)(4)(E), Oct. 17, 1978, 92 Stat. 1465 ; Pub. L. 104–88, title III, §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, §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.