{"identifier":"/us/usc/t49/s10741","title":49,"num":"\u00a7\u202f10741.","heading":"Prohibitions against discrimination by rail carriers","text":"\u00a7\u202f10741.\nProhibitions against discrimination by rail carriers\n(a)\n(1) A rail carrier providing transportation or service subject to the jurisdiction of the Board under this part may not subject a person, place, port, or type of traffic to unreasonable discrimination.\n(2) For purposes of this section, a rail carrier engages in unreasonable discrimination when it charges or receives from a person a different compensation for a service rendered, or to be rendered, in transportation the rail carrier may perform under this part than it charges or receives from another person for performing a like and contemporaneous service in the transportation of a like kind of traffic under substantially similar circumstances.\n(b) This section shall not apply to\u2014\n(1) contracts described in\nsection 10709 of this title\n(2) rail rates applicable to different routes; or\n(3) discrimination against the traffic of another carrier providing transportation by any mode.\n(c) Differences between rates, classifications, rules, and practices of rail carriers do not constitute a violation of this section if such differences result from different services provided by rail carriers.","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t49/s10741.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t49/s10741","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f10741."},{"t":"heading","text":"Prohibitions against discrimination by rail carriers"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t49/s10741/a","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(a)"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t49/s10741/a/1","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(1)"},{"t":"content","text":" A rail carrier providing transportation or service subject to the jurisdiction of the Board under this part may not subject a person, place, port, or type of traffic to unreasonable discrimination.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t49/s10741/a/2","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(2)"},{"t":"content","text":" For purposes of this section, a rail carrier engages in unreasonable discrimination when it charges or receives from a person a different compensation for a service rendered, or to be rendered, in transportation the rail carrier may perform under this part than it charges or receives from another person for performing a like and contemporaneous service in the transportation of a like kind of traffic under substantially similar circumstances.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t49/s10741/b","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(b)"},{"t":"chapeau","text":" This section shall not apply to\u2014"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t49/s10741/b/1","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(1)"},{"t":"content","text":" contracts described in ","children":[{"t":"ref","text":"section 10709 of this title","href":"/us/usc/t49/s10709","tail":";"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t49/s10741/b/2","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(2)"},{"t":"content","text":" rail rates applicable to different routes; or","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t49/s10741/b/3","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(3)"},{"t":"content","text":" discrimination against the traffic of another carrier providing transportation by any mode.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t49/s10741/c","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(c)"},{"t":"content","text":" Differences between rates, classifications, rules, and practices of rail carriers do not constitute a violation of this section if such differences result from different services provided by rail carriers.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}