49 USC 31114: Access to the Interstate System
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49 USC 31114: Access to the Interstate System Text contains those laws in effect on January 7, 2011
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§31114. Access to the Interstate System

(a) Prohibition on Denying Access.-A State may not enact or enforce a law denying to a commercial motor vehicle subject to this subchapter or subchapter I of this chapter reasonable access between-

(1) the Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways (except a segment exempted under section 31111(f) or 31113(e) of this title) and other qualifying Federal-aid Primary System highways designated by the Secretary of Transportation; and

(2) terminals, facilities for food, fuel, repairs, and rest, and points of loading and unloading for household goods carriers, motor carriers of passengers, or any truck tractor-semitrailer combination in which the semitrailer has a length of not more than 28.5 feet and that generally operates as part of a vehicle combination described in section 31111(c) of this title.


(b) Exception.-This section does not prevent a State or local government from imposing reasonable restrictions, based on safety considerations, on a truck tractor-semitrailer combination in which the semitrailer has a length of not more than 28.5 feet and that generally operates as part of a vehicle combination described in section 31111(c) of this title.

( Pub. L. 103–272, §1(e), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 999 .)

Historical and Revision Notes
Revised

Section

Source (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large)
31114(a) 49 App.:2312(a). Jan. 6, 1983, Pub. L. 97–424, §412, 96 Stat. 2160 ; Oct. 30, 1984, Pub. L. 98–554, §§104(c), 106, 98 Stat. 2831 , 2832; Dec. 18, 1991, Pub. L. 102–240, §4006(b)(2), 105 Stat. 2151 .
31114(b) 49 App.:2312(b).

In subsection (a), the words "Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways" are substituted for "Interstate and Defense Highway System" for consistency in the revised chapter.