PUBLIC LAW 95-163—NOV. 9, 1977
91 STAT. 1287
air carrier for interstate air transportation of property or any classification, rule, regulation, or practice affecting such rate or charge, or the value of the service thereunder, is or will be unjustly discriminatory, or unduly preferential, or unduly prejudicial, or predatory the Board shall alter such rate, charge, classification, rule, regulation, or practice to the extent necessary to correct such discrimination, preference, prejudice, or predatory practice and make an order that the air carrier or foreign air carrier shall discontinue demanding, charging, collecting, or receiving any such discriminatory, preferential, prejudicial, or predatory rate or charge or enforcing any such discriminatory, preferential, prejudicial, or predatory classification, rule, regulation, or practice.". (b) The last sentence of subsection (g) of such section 1002 is Rate suspension, amended to read as follows: "If the proceeding has not been con- ^^ USC 1482. eluded and an order made within the period of suspension, the proposed rate, fare, charge, classification, rule, regulation, or practice shall go into effect at the end of such period, except that this subsection shall not apply to any initial tariff filed by any air carrier. The Board shall not suspend any proposed tariff under this subsection because of the proposed rate, fare, charge, classification, rule, regulation, or practice stated therein unless the Board is empowered to find such proposed rate, fare, charge, classification, rule, regulation, or practice unjust or unreasonable and empowered to determine and prescribe the lawful rate, fare, charge, classification, rule, regulation, or practice, or the lawful maximum or minimum, or maximum and minimum rate, fare, or charge.". (c) The first sentence of subsection (h) of such section 1002 is amended by striking out "air transportation" and inserting in lieu thereof "interstate air transportation of persons, air transportation of property within the State of Alaska, air transportation of property within the State of Hawaii, or overseas or foreign air transportation". (d) Subsection (i) of such section 1002 is amended by striking out "interstate" and inserting in lieu thereof "interstate air transportation of persons, air transportation of property within the State of Alaska, air transportation of property within the State of Hawaii,". (e)(1) Such section 1002 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: u DEFINrriONS
"(k)(1) For purposes of this section, the term 'interstate air transportation of property' means— "(A) the carriage by aircraft of property as a common carrier for compensation or hire in commerce between a place in any State of the United States, or the District of Columbia, and a place in any other State of the United States, or the District of Columbia (other than the carriage by aircraft of property by a common carrier between any pair of points both of which are within the State of Alaska or Hawaii if such carriage is part of the continuous carriage of such property and another common carrier provides, as part of such continuous carriage, the carriage by aircraft of such property between any pair of points one of which is within the State of Alaska or Hawaii and the other of which is not within the same State); or between places in the same State of the United States (other than the State of Alaska or Hawaii) through the airspace over any place outside thereof;
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