23 U.S.C. § 146 Carpool and Vanpool Projects

• Library: United States Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through P.L. 118-34 (published on www.congress.gov on 12/26/2023), except for [P. L. 118-31]
• Year: 2023
• Citation: 23 U.S.C. § 146

(a) In order to conserve fuel, decrease traffic congestion during rush hours, improve air quality, and enhance the use of existing highways and parking facilities, the Secretary may approve for Federal financial assistance from funds apportioned under section 104(b)(2) of this title, projects designed to encourage the use of carpools and vanpools. (As used hereafter in this section, the term "carpool" includes a vanpool.) Such a project may include, but is not limited to, such measures as providing carpooling opportunities to the elderly and handicapped, systems for locating potential riders and informing them of convenient carpool opportunities, acquiring vehicles appropriate for carpool use, designating existing highway lanes as preferential carpool highway lanes, providing related traffic control devices, and designating existing facilities for use as preferential parking for carpools.

(b) A project authorized by this section shall be subject to and carried out in accordance with all provisions of this title, except those provisions which the Secretary determines are inconsistent with this section.

Cite as 23 U.S.C. § 146

Source: Added Pub. L. 95-599, title I, §126(a), Nov. 6, 1978, 92 Stat. 2705; amended Pub. L. 105-178, title I, §1103(l)(1), June 9, 1998, 112 Stat. 125; Pub. L. 112-141, div. A, title I, §1105(b), July 6, 2012, 126 Stat. 432.

Notes from the Office of Law Revision Counsel

current through 5/22/2023

EDITORIAL NOTES

PRIOR PROVISIONS

A prior section 146, Pub. L. 93-87, title I, §125(a), Aug. 13, 1973, 87 Stat. 262, related to a special urban high density traffic program, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 94-280, title I, §128(a), May 5, 1976, 90 Stat. 440.

AMENDMENTS

2012-Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 112-141 substituted "section 104(b)(2)" for "sections 104(b)(1) and 104(b)(3)".

1998-Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 105-178 substituted "sections 104(b)(1) and 104(b)(3)" for "sections 104(b)(1), 104(b)(2), and 104(b)(6)".

STATUTORY NOTES AND RELATED SUBSIDIARIES

EFFECTIVE DATE OF 2012 AMENDMENT

Amendment by Pub. L. 112-141 effective Oct. 1, 2012, see section 3(a) of Pub. L. 112-141 set out as an Effective and Termination Dates of 2012 Amendment note under section 101 of this title.

USE OF HIGH OCCUPANCY LANES

Pub. L. 97-424, title I, §163, Jan. 6, 1983, 96 Stat. 2136, as amended by Pub. L. 100-17, title I, §133(a)(4), (5), Apr. 2, 1987, 101 Stat. 170, 171; Pub. L. 102-240, title I, §10561056,, 105 Stat. 2002, provided that: "Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or any other law, no funds apportioned or allocated to a State for Federal-aid highways shall be obligated for a project for constructing, resurfacing, restoring, rehabilitating, or reconstructing a Federal-aid highway which has a lane designated as a carpool lane unless the use of such lane includes use by motorcycles. Upon certification by the State to the Secretary of Transportation, after notice in the Federal Register and an opportunity for public comment, and acceptance of such certification by the Secretary, the State may restrict such use by motorcycles if such use would create a safety hazard. Any certification made before the date of the enactment of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 [Dec. 18, 1991] shall not be recognized by the Secretary until the Secretary publishes notice of such certification in the Federal Register and provides an opportunity for public comment on such certification."