18 USC § 341 - Definitions

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identifier: "/us/usc/t18/s341"
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title: "18 USC § 341 - Definitions"
title_number: 18
title_name: "CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE"
section_number: "341"
section_name: "Definitions"
chapter_number: 17
chapter_name: "COMMON CARRIER OPERATION UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL OR DRUGS"
part_number: "I"
part_name: "CRIMES"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-21"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Added Pub. L. 99–570, title I, § 1971(a), Oct. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 3207–59; amended Pub. L. 100–690, title VI, § 6482(a), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4382.)"
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# § 341. Definitions

As used in this chapter, the term “common carrier” means a locomotive, a rail carrier, a sleeping car carrier, a bus transporting passengers in interstate commerce, a water common carrier, and an air common carrier.

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**Source Credit**: (Added Pub. L. 99–570, title I, § 1971(a), Oct. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 3207–59; amended Pub. L. 100–690, title VI, § 6482(a), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4382.)

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1988— inserted “locomotive, a” after “means a”.