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128 records in 1973
United States · United States Congress · 6 February 1973
Provides that any air carrier, may grant reduced rate transportation to individuals aged 21 and younger, upon such terms and conditions as the Civil Aeronautics Board may prescribe. (Amends 49 U.S.C. 1373(b))
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1973
Title I: Airline Passenger Right to Travel Act - Provides for the implementation of the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft under the Federal Aviation Act of 1958. Authorizes the President to suspend air service to any foreign nation which he determines is encouraging aircraft hijacking by acting in a manner inconsistent with the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft, or which he determines is used as a base of operations or training or as a sanctuary for terrorist organizations using the illegal seizure of aircraft as an instrument of policy. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to revoke, with the approval of the Secretary of State, the operating authority of foreign air carriers who fail to meet the minimum standards set by the Convention to effectively maintain the security measures relating to the transportation of persons in foreign air transportation covered by the Convention. Title II: Air Transportation Security Act - Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to prescribe regulations requiring that all passengers and property intended to be carried in the aircraft cabin be screened by weapon-detecting devices operated by the air carrier's employees. Requires the Administrator to acquire and furnish for the use by air carriers sufficient devices necessary for the purpose of this Act. Requires the Administrator to establish and maintain an air transportation security force of sufficient size to provide a law enforcement presence and capability at airports in the United States adequate to insure safety from criminal violence and air piracy of persons traveling in air transportation. Sets forth criminal penalties for carrying a weapon aboard an aircraft. Sets forth penalties for the willful and malicious imparting or conveying of false information concerning an attempt to carry out any prohibited act contained in the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1973
Title I: Anti-Hijacking Act - Expands the definition of the term: special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States: when used in the Federal Aviation Act to include the following aircraft while in flight: (1) any aircraft outside the United States that has: an offense:, as defined in the convention for the suppression of unlawful seizure of aircraft, committed aboard, if the aircraft lands in the United States with the alleged offender still aboard; and (2) other aircraft leased without crew to a lessee who has his principal place of business in the United States, or his permanent residence in the United States. Provides that whoever aboard an aircraft in flight outside the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States commits an offense, as defined in the convention for the suppression of unlawful seizure of aircraft, and is afterward found in the United States shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than 20 years or for more than life. Provides that whenever the President determines that a foreign nation is acting in a manner inconsistent with the convention for the suppression of unlawful seizure of aircraft, or is used as a base of operations for terrorist groups, he may without notice or hearing and for as long as he determines necessary to assure the security of aircraft against unlawful seizure. Suspend the right of any air transportation and any persons to operate aircraft in foreign air commerce to and from that foreign nation and the right of any foreign air carrier to engage in foreign air transportation, and any foreign person to operate aircraft in foreign air commerce between the United States any and foreign nation which maintains air service between itself and that foreign nation. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to suspend the operating authority of foreign air carriers when he finds that a foreign nation does not effectively maintain and administer security measures relating to transportation of persons or property or mail in foreign air transportation that are equal to or above the minimum standards which are established pursuant to the convention on international civil aviation or, prior to a date when such standards are adopted and enter into force pursuant to such convention, the specifications and practices set out in appendix A to resolution A 17-10 of the seventeenth assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organization. Title II: Air Transportation Security Act - Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to prescribe reasonable regulations requiring that all passengers and property intended to be carried in the aircraft cabin be screened by weapon-detecting devices operated by the air carrier's employees. Requires the Administrator to acquire and furnish for the use by air carriers sufficient devices necessary for the purposes of this Act. Requires the Administrator to establish and maintain an air transportation security force of sufficient size to provide a law enforcement presence and capability at airports in the United States adequate to insure the safety from criminal violence and air piracy of persons traveling in air transportation. Provides that the Administrator may not require, by regulation or otherwise, the presence at airports in the United States of State or local law enforcement personnel to assist in or support the screening of passengers and property prior to boarding, or to enforce, or to act as a deterrent against Acts which are prohibited by, United States statutes other than as authorized by this Act. Provides that no person shall be frisked or searched unless he has been identified by a weapons detection device as a person who is reasonably likely to be carrying unlawfully a concealed weapon and before he has been given an opportunity to remove from his person or clothing objects which could have evoked a positive response from the weapons detection device, and unless he consents to such search. Provides that, if consent for such search is denied, such person shall be denied boarding and shall forfeit his opportunity to be transported in air transportation, intrastate air transportation, and foreign air transportation. Sets forth criminal penalties for the carrying aboard an aircraft of weapons. Authorizes appropriations of $35,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, and each succeeding fiscal year to maintain the air transportation security force provided for in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1973
Title I: Airline Passenger Right to Travel Act - Provides for the implementation of the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft under the Federal Aviation Act of 1958. Authorizes the President to suspend air service to any foreign nation which he determines is encouraging aircraft hijacking by acting in a manner inconsistent with the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft, or which he determines is used as a base of operations or training or as a sanctuary for terrorist organizations using the illegal seizure of aircraft as an instrument of policy. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to revoke, with the approval of the Secretary of State, the operating authority of foreign air carriers who fail to meet the minimum standards set by the Convention to effectively maintain the security measures relating to the transportation of persons in foreign air transportation covered by the Convention. Title II: Air Transportation Security Act - Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to prescribe regulations requiring that all passengers and property intended to be carried in the aircraft cabin be screened by weapon-detecting devices operated by the air carrier's employees. Requires the Administrator to acquire and furnish for the use by air carriers sufficient devices necessary for the purpose of this Act. Requires the Administrator to establish and maintain an air transportation security force of sufficient size to provide a law enforcement presence and capability at airports in the United States adequate to insure safety from criminal violence and air piracy of persons traveling in air transportation. Sets forth criminal penalties for carrying a weapon aboard an aircraft. Sets forth penalties for the willful and malicious imparting or conveying of false information concerning an attempt to carry out any prohibited act contained in the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1973
Permits each member of a flight crew on duty on the flight deck of a civil aircraft to carry a firearm. Requires an intercommunication system to permit persons authorized to enter the flight deck to request that the door be opened. Provides that the door separating the flight deck from the passenger compartment shall be locked at all times in such a manner that it may be opened only from the flight deck. (Adds 49 U.S.C. 412 (a)(7))
United States · United States Congress · 31 January 1973
Authorizes reduced rate transportation under the Federal Aviations Act of 1958 for individuals over the age of 65 on a space-available basis. (Amends 49 U.S.C. 1373(b))
United States · United States Congress · 30 January 1973
Terminates the Airlines Mutual Aid Agreement approved by the Civil Aeronautics Board in docket 9977. (Adds 49 U.S.C. 1382(c))
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973
Authorizes under the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, reduced-rate transportation on a space-available basis for persons aged sixty-two years of age or older. (Amends 49 U.S.C. 1373(b))
United States · United States Congress · 29 January 1973
Authorizes free or reduced rate transportation on airlines under the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to handicapped persons and persons who are sixty-five years of age or older. Authorizes free or reduced rate railroad transportation for persons who are sixty-five years of age or older under the Interstate Commerce Act. (Amends 490 U.S.C. 1373 (b), 22)
United States · United States Congress · 24 January 1973
Authorizes reduced-fare transportation on airplanes, railroads, and motor buses on a space-available basis for persons who are sixty-five years of age or older. (Amends 49 U.S.C. 1373(b), 22)
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1973
Provides, under the Federal Aviation Act, for reduced rate transportation on a space available basis for youth (between 12 and 22), elderly people (aged 65 and older), and military personnel who are members of the United States armed services traveling at their own expense, in uniform and while on official leave, furlough, or pass. (Amends 49 U.S.C. 1373(b))
United States · United States Congress · 23 January 1973
Permits any air carrier to grant reduced-rate transportation under conditions prescribed by the Civil Aeronautics Board to: (1) family members, handicapped persons (including attendants accompaning them), and young people; and (2) ministers of religion and elderly people on a space-available basis. (Amends 49 U.S.C. 1373(b))
United States · United States Congress · 18 January 1973
Defines the term "Inclusive tour charter trip" to mean a charter trip which combines air transportation, pursuant to a contract between an air carrier or foreign air carrier and a person authorized by the Civil Aeronautics Board to sell inclusive tours, and land arrangements at one or more points of destination, sold to members of the public at a price which is not less than the just and reasonable fare for charter air transportation plus a compensatory charge for land arrangements, and subject to such other requirements not inconsistent herewith as the Board shall by regulation prescribe. Provides that whenever the Board finds that the government or aeronautical authorities of any foreign country have refused to permit, or have imposed arbitrary or unreasonable restrictions upon, the performance of foreign air transportation, or have discriminated between classes of air carriers, the Board may with or without prior notice and without hearing suspend or modify any permit issued to a foreign air carrier.
United States · United States Congress · 11 January 1973
Authorizes free or reduced rate transportation on airlines under the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 to handicapped persons and persons who are sixty-five years of age or older. Authorizes free or reduced rate railroad transportation for persons who are sixty-five years of age or older under the Interstate Commerce Act. (Amends 49 U.S.C. 1373(b), 22)
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1973
Authorizes, under the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, reduced fares on the airlines on a space-available basis for individuals twenty-one years of age or younger or sixty-five years of age or older.
United States · United States Congress · 4 January 1973
Title I: Anti-Hijacking Act - Expands the definition of the term "special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States" when used in the Federal Aviation Act to include the following aircraft while in flight: (1) any aircraft outside the United States that has "an offense", as defined in the convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft, committed aboard, if the aircraft lands in the United States with the alleged offender still aboard; and (2) other aircraft leased without crew to a lessee who has his principal place of business in the United States, or his permanent residence in the United States. Provides that whoever aboard an aircraft in flight outside the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States commits "an offense", as defined in the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft, and is afterward found in the United States shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than 20 years or for more than life. Provides that whenever the President determines that a foreign nation is acting in a manner inconsistent with the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft, or is used as a base of operations for terrorist groups, he may, without notice or hearing and for as long as he determines necessary to assure the security of aircraft against unlawful seizure, suspend the right of any air transportation and any persons to operate aircraft in foreign air commerce to and from that foreign nation and the right of any foreign air carrier to engage in foreign air transportation, and any foreign person to operate aircraft in foreign air commerce between the United States and any foreign nation which maintains air service between itself and that foreign nation. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to suspend the operating authority of foreign air carriers when he finds that a foreign nation does not effectively maintain and administer security measures relating to transportation of persons or property or mail in foreign air transportation that are equal to or above the minimum standards which are established pursuant to the Convention on International Civil Aviation or, prior to a date when such standards are adopted and enter into force pursuant to such convention, the specifications and practices set out in appendix A to Resolution A 17-10 of the Seventeenth Assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organization. Title II: Air Transportation Security Act - Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to prescribe reasonable regulations requiring that all passengers and property intended to be carried in the aircraft cabin be screened by weapon-detecting devices operated by the air carrier's employees. Requires the Administrator to acquire and furnish for the use by air carriers sufficient devices necessary for the purposes of this Act. Requires the Administrator to establish and maintain an air transportation security force of sufficient size to provide a law enforcement presence and capability at airports in the United States adequate to insure the safety from criminal violence and air piracy of persons traveling in air transportation. Provides that the Administrator may not require, by regulation of otherwise, the presence at airports in the United States of State or local law enforcement personnel to assist in or support the screening of passengers and property prior to boarding, or to enforce, or to act as a deterrent against acts which are prohibited by, United States statutes other than as authorized by this Act. Provides that no person shall be frisked or searched unless he has been identified by a weapons detection device as a person who is reasonably likely to be carrying unlawfully a concealed weapon and before he has been given an opportunity to remove from his person or clothing objects which could have evoked a positive response from the weapons detection device, and unless he consents to such search. Provides that, if consent for such search is denied, such person shall be denied boarding and shall forfeit his opportunity to be transported in air transportation, intrastate air transportation, and foreign air transportation. Sets forth criminal penalties for the carrying aboard an aircraft of weapons. Authorizes appropriations of $35,000,000 for fiscal years 1973, and 1974 to maintain the air transportation security force provided for in this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides that after January 1, 1976, all subsonic transport category aircraft operating within the jurisdiction of the United States shall reduce their takeoff approach and sideline noise by amounts specified in this Act. Authorizes the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to contract for the research and development of sound reduction devices utilizing representative aircraft models and to demonstrate compliance with the provisions of this Act by a prototype flight test. Authorizes to be appropriated $35,000,000 to carry out this purpose. Allows the Administrator to guarantee in whole or in part the repayment of any loan or other form of financing made to an air carrier for the purpose of modifying airplanes to meet the requirements of this Act. Restricts the total amount guaranteed to $1,000,000,000. Provides that no guarantee shall be made: (1) unless the Administrator finds that without such guaranty, in the amount thereof, the carrier would be unable to obtain necessary funds, on reasonable terms, for the purposes for which the financing is sought; (2) if in the judgment of the Administrator the financing involved is at a rate of interest which is unreasonably high; (3) if the terms of such financing permit full repayment more than fifteen years after the date thereof; or (4) unless the Administrator finds that the prospective earning power of the applicant carrier, together with the character and value of the security pledged, if any, furnish reasonable assurance of the applicant's ability to repay the financing within the time fixed therefor and reasonable protection to the United States. States that in the event of any default on any such guaranteed financing, the Attorney General shall take such action as may be appropriate to recover the amount of such payments, with interest, from the defaulting carrier, carriers, or other persons liable therefore. Authorizes the Administrator to make grants to State and local agencies to aid in paying the cost of administering airport noise monitoring programs. Authorizes appropriations of $20,000,000 to carry out this program.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Authorizes free or reduced rate transportation for severely handicapped persons and persons in attendance, when the severely handicapped person is traveling with such an attendant. (Amends 49 U.S.C. 1373)
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Requires that any air carrier proposing to discontinue any air transportation to or from any point named in its certificate to give notice thereof at least sixty days in advance of the proposed discontinuance. Authorizes the Civil Aeronautics Board during such sixty day period to investigate the proposed discontinuance of service. States that if the Board, after an investigation and hearing, finds that the operation of such air transportation is required for public convenience and necessity it may require the continuance of such service, in whole or in part. (Amends 49 U.S.C. 1371(e))
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Title I: Airline Passenger Right to Travel Act - Provides for the implementation of the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft under the Federal Aviation Act of 1958. Authorizes the President to suspend air service to any foreign nation which he determines is encouraging aircraft hijacking by acting in a manner inconsistent with the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft, or which he determines is used as a base of operations or training or as a sanctuary for terrorist organizations using the illegal seizure of aircraft as an instrument of policy. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to revoke, with the approval of the Secretary of State, the operating authority of foreign air carriers who fail to meet the minimum standards set by the Convention to effectively maintain the security measures relating to the transportation of persons in foreign air transportation covered by the Convention. Title II: Air Transportation Security Act - Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to prescribe regulations requiring that all passengers and property intended to be carried in the aircraft cabin be screened by weapon-detecting devices operated by the air carrier's employees. Requires the Administrator to acquire and furnish for the use by air carriers sufficient devices necessary for the purpose of this Act. Requires the Administrator to establish and maintain an air transportation security force of sufficient size to provide a law enforcement presence and capability at airports in the United States adequate to insure safety from criminal violence and air piracy of persons traveling in air transportation. Sets forth criminal penalties for carrying a weapon aboard an aircraft. Sets forth penalties for the willful and malicious imparting or conveying of false information concerning an attempt to carry out any prohibited act contained in the provisions of this Act.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Authorizes reduced rate transportation under the Federal Aviations Act of 1958 for individuals over the age of 65 on a space-available basis. (Amends 49 U.S.C. 1373(b))
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Requires the Secretary of Transportation, after consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, to issue regulations requiring the disinsection of aircraft arriving at any point in the United States after flight through airspace outside the United States. Provides that such regulations shall establish, from time to time, minimum procedures, equipment, facilities, and materials required to be employed for the proper disinsection of aircraft and minimum training requirements for individuals engaged in aircraft disinsection.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides, under the Federal Aviation Act, for reduced rate transportation on a space available basis for youth (between 12 and 22), elderly people (aged 65 and older), and military personnel who are members of the United States armed services traveling at their own expense, in uniform and while on official leave, furlough, or pass. (Amends 49 U.S.C. 1373(b))
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Provides that amount appropriated to carry out the functions, powers, and duties of the Federal Aviation Administration shall not exceed $1,728,100,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, $1,900,910,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and $2,100,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976. Provides that for fiscal years ending after June 30, 1976, there may be appropriated such sums as the Congress hereafter authorizes by law.
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Requires that any air carrier proposing to discontinue any air transportation to or from any point named in its certificate to give notice thereof at least sixty days in advance of the proposed discontinuance. Authorizes the Civil Aeronautics Board during such sixty day period to investigate the proposed discontinuance of service. States that if the Board, after an investigation and hearing, finds that the operation of such air transportation is required for public convenience and necessity it may require the continuance of such service, in whole or in part. (Amends 49 U.S.C. 1371(e))
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Authorizes appropriations for the Civil Aeronautics Board of $74,800,000 for fiscal year 1974, $82,280,000 for fiscal year 1975, $90,400,000 for fiscal year 1976, and such sums as Congress may authorize for subsequent fiscal years. (Amends 49 U.S.C. 1371)
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Authorizes free or reduced rate transportation under the Federal Aviation Act of 1958 and Part I (Railroad Transportation) of the Interstate Commerce Act for persons who are sixty-two years of age or older. (Amends 49 U.S.C., 22, 1373 (b))
United States · United States Congress · 3 January 1973
Title I: Anti-Hijacking Act - Provides for the implementation of the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft under the Federal Aviation Act of 1958. Authorizes the President to suspend air service to any foreign nation which he determines is encouraging aircraft hijacking by acting in a manner inconsistent with the Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft, or which he determines is used as a base of operations or training, or as a sanctuary for terrorist organizations using the illegal seizure of aircraft as an instrument of policy. Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to revoke, with the approval of the Secretary of State, the operating authority of foreign air carriers who fail to meet the minimum standards set by the Convention to effectively maintain the security measures relating to the transportation of persons in foreign air transportation covered by the Convention. Makes provisions for special airfare rates for individuals who are twenty-one years of age or younger, for those sixty-five or older, for the handicapped and their attendants, and for widows, widowers and minor children of airline employees. Title II: Air Transportation Security Act - Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to prescribe regulations requiring that all passengers and property intended to be carried in the aircraft cabin be screened by weapon-detecting devices operated by the air carrier's employees. Requires the Administrator to acquire and furnish for the use by air carriers sufficient devices necessary for the purposes of this Act. Requires the Administrator to establish and maintain an air transportation security force of sufficient size to provide a law enforcement presence and capability at airports in the United States adequate to insure safety from criminal violence and air piracy of persons traveling in air transportation. Sets forth criminal penalties for the carrying of weapons aboard an aircraft. Authorizes appropriations to maintain the air transportation security force provided for in this Act.