Commercial Vehicle Programs - U.S. Grants to States

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It all Starts Here:
TITLE 49 Sec. 31102. - Grants to States

SUBTITLE VI - MOTOR VEHICLE AND DRIVER PROGRAMS


PART B - COMMERCIAL


CHAPTER 311 - COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE SAFETY


SUBCHAPTER I - GENERAL AUTHORITY AND STATE GRANTS

• (b) State Plan Procedures and Contents. -
  (1)The Secretary shall prescribe procedures for a State to submit a plan . . . The Secretary shall approve the plan . . and the plan -
  (B)
  designates the State motor vehicle safety agency responsible for administering the plan throughout the State;
  
  (C)
  contains satisfactory assurances the agency has or will have the legal authority, resources, and qualified personnel necessary to enforce the regulations, standards, and orders;

That is just for context, you really need to read the whole section to understand the regulatory scheme

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TITLE 49 - TRANSPORTATION
SUBTITLE VI - MOTOR VEHICLE AND DRIVER PROGRAMS
PART A - GENERAL
CHAPTER 301 - MOTOR VEHICLE SAFETY
SUBCHAPTER I - GENERAL

Statutes -----------------------------------------------Implementing Regs(CFR)

Section 30101. Purpose And Policy -------------------------NONE


Section 30102. Definitions -----------------------49 Parts 554, 573, 577, 579


Section 30103. Relationship To Other Laws------49 Parts 554, 573, 577, 579
49 Part 553 (this one looks big time)

Section 30104. Authorization Of Appropriations

TITLE 49 - TRANSPORTATION
SUBTITLE VI - MOTOR VEHICLE AND DRIVER PROGRAMS
PART B - COMMERCIAL
CHAPTER 311 - COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE SAFETY
SUBCHAPTER I - STATE GRANTS AND OTHER COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE PROGRAMS

Statutes -----------------------------------------------Implementing Regs(CFR)

Section 31100. Purpose------------------------------49 Part 350

Section 31101. Definitions---------------------------49 Part 350, 355, 389, 29 Part 1978

Section 31102. Grants To States (BIG TIME!!!)---------------------49 Part 350

Section 31103. United States Government'S Share Of Costs-----------49 Part 350

Section 31104. Availability Of Amounts---------------------49 Part 350

Section 31105. Employee Protections------------------------49 Part 350

Section 31106. Information Systems

Section 31107. Contract Authority Funding For Information Systems

Section 31108. Authorization Of Appropriations----------------49 Part 350

TITLE 49 - TRANSPORTATION
SUBTITLE VI - MOTOR VEHICLE AND DRIVER PROGRAM
PART B - COMMERCIAL
CHAPTER 311 - COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE SAFETY
SUBCHAPTER III - SAFETY REGULATION

Statutes -----------------------------------------------Implementing Regs(CFR)

Section 31131. Purposes And Findings

Section 31132. Definitions...............................................49 Part 398

Section 31133. General Powers Of The Secretary Of Transportation---------......................49 Parts 380, 382, 391, 390, 395, 396, 49 Part 398

Section 31134. Repealed. Pub. L. 105-178, Title Iv, Sec. 4008(C), June 9, 1998, 112 Stat. 404

Section 31135. Duties Of Employers And Employees

Section 31136. United States Government Regulations------------------------49 Part 350, 380, 381, 382, 383, 384(BIG TIME!!!), 385, 391, 390, 392394
[Reserved] 395, 396, 49 Part 398

Section 31137. Monitoring Device And Brake Maintenance Regulations

Section 31138. Minimum Financial Responsibility For Transporting Passengers (INTERESTING) ------------------------49 Parts 365, 387(HMMmmm), 389

Section 31139. Minimum Financial Responsibility For Transporting Property
----------387(HMMmmm), 389

Section 31140. Repealed. Pub. L. 105-178, Title Iv, Sec. 4008(D), June 9, 1998, 112 Stat. 404


Section 31141. Review And Preemption Of State Laws And Regulations ------------ 4p Part 350


Section 31142. Inspection Of Vehicles

Section 31143. Investigating Complaints And Protecting Complainants


Section 31144. Safety Fitness Of Owners And Operators
49 Parts 365, 385
Section 31145. Coordination Of Governmental Activities And Paperwork

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Section 31146. Relationship To Other Laws

Section 31147. Limitations On Authority

Section 31148. Certified Motor Carrier Safety Auditors------------------49 Part 385

United States Code

TITLE 49 - TRANSPORTATION
SUBTITLE IV - INTERSTATE TRANSPORTATION
PART B - MOTOR CARRIERS, WATER CARRIERS, BROKERS, AND FREIGHT FORWARDERS
CHAPTER 133 - ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

Section 13301. Powers ----------------------------- 49 Parts 356, 365, 367(GOOD ONE)!!, 368, 370, 371, 373, 374, 375, 376, 377, 379, 387, 390, 49 Part 398, 1003, 1013, 1039


Section 13302. Intervention


Section 13303. Service Of Notice In Proceedings------------------------ 49 Part 366


Section 13304. Service Of Process In Court Proceedings ------------------------ 49 Part 366

These look kinda cool
49 USC Sec. 31301 -- 49 Parts 382--384, 386, 389

49 USC Sec. 13501 ------------------------- 49 CFR 386 ..49 Parts 371, 1182
http://www.washingtonwatchdog.org/do...383.html#383.5

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In 1924 the Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover, called a National
Conference on Street and Highway Safety, attended by representatives
from every State. This conference appointed a committee on
uniformity of traffic laws. This committee prepared the original
text of the Uniform Vehicle Code, which was approved in 1926 at the
meeting of the Second National Conference on Street and Highway
Safety.

The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws
participated to a large extent in the drafting of the text of the
Uniform Code, which was approved by the Commissioners and by the
American Bar Association.

The National Conference on Street and Highway Safety reviewed and
revised the text of the Code in 1930 and 1934. Both the original
text and the revisions were based upon studies of then existing
State traffic laws and it was the endeavor of the committee to
assemble from such State laws the most appropriate and desirable
regulations.

A report of the Committee on Laws and Ordinances of The President's
Highway Safety Conference in 1946 reviews the history of the Uniform
Vehicle Code and the extent to which it has been adopted throughout
the United States. Said Code was revised in the years 1938, 1944,
1948 and 1950.

During a long period the Uniform Code was divided into five acts,
entitled as follows:
Act I-Uniform Motor-Vehicle Administration, Registration,
Certificate of Title, and Antitheft Act.
Act II-Uniform Motor-Vehicle Operators' and Chauffeurs' License Act.
Act III-Uniform Motor-Vehicle Civil Liability Act.
Act IV-Uniform Motor-Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act.
Act V-Uniform Act Regulating Traffic on Highways.
The National Committee on Uniform Traffic Laws and Ordinances, in
the year 1954, consolidated the several acts as listed above into
one text, entitled "The Uniform Vehicle Code."

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US v. Lopez in quoting MARYLAND v. WIRTZ, 392 U.S. 183 (1968)

"[n]either here nor in Wickard has the Court declared that Congress may use a relatively trivial impact on commerce as an excuse for broad general regulation of state or private activities," id., at 197, n. 27. Rather, "[t]he Court has said only that where a general regulatory statute bears a substantial relation to commerce, the de minimis character of individual instances arising under that statute is of no consequence."

Consistent with this structure, we have identified three broad categories of activity that Congress may regulate under its commerce power. Perez v. United States, supra, at 150; see also Hodel v. Virginia Surface Mining & Reclamation Assn., supra, at 276-277. First, Congress may regulate the use of the channels of interstate commerce. See, e.g., Darby, 312 U.S., at 114 ; Heart of Atlanta Motel, supra, at 256 ("`[T]he authority of Congress to keep the channels of interstate commerce free from immoral and injurious uses has been frequently sustained, and is no longer open to question.'" (quoting Caminetti v. United States, 242 U.S. 470, 491 (1917)). Second, Congress is empowered to regulate and protect the instrumentalities of interstate commerce, or persons or things in interstate commerce, even though the threat may come only from intrastate activities. See, e.g., Shreveport Rate Cases, 234 U.S. 342 (1914); Southern R. Co. v. United States, 222 U.S. 20 (1911) (upholding amendments to Safety Appliance Act as applied to vehicles used in intrastate commerce); Perez, supra, at 150 ("[F]or example, the destruction of an aircraft (18 U.S.C. 32), or . . . thefts from interstate shipments (18 U.S.C. 659)"). Finally, Congress' commerce authority includes the power to regulate those [ UNITED STATES v. LOPEZ, ___ U.S. ___ (1995) , 10]** activities having a substantial relation to interstate commerce, Jones & Laughlin Steel, 301 U.S., at 37 , i.e., those activities that substantially affect interstate commerce. Wirtz, supra, at 196, n. 27.

US v. Lopez

http://laws.findlaw.com/us/000/u10287.html

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the Money:
http://www.dot.gov/foia/reports/2003annualreport.html

It's from 2003, but you'll get the idea

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Hmmmm. attached is
A Guide To Federal-Aid Programs And Projects

there is some great information about Federally-funded Uniform Highway Safety Programs at the Federal HighWay Administration website [lots of digging in USC and CFRs required]:

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/programadmin/proggd2.pdf [view pages 75,76 as
numbered in the text, not in the PDF server].

This seems to be part of the Federal-State Transportation Plan; it
looks to me like funding for safety enFORCEment.

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Someone should have got that to the marijuana guys from California before they lost their case.