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Aeronautical Statutes

and Related Material

The Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, as Amended

AND

Other Statutory Provisions
Relating to Civil Aeronautics

TOGETHER WITH

Reorganization Plans No. III and No. IV

AND

Certain Other Nonstatutory Material
Affecting Civil Aeronautics

Revised September 1, 1948

COMPILED BY THE STAFF OF THE CIVIL
AERONAUTICS BOARD

U. 3. Laws, statutes,

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON, 1948

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Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, as amended__

Message from the President of the United States transmitting Reorganiza-

tion Plan No. III.

1948

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1

71

Reorganization Plan No. III.

74

Message from the President of the United States transmitting Reorganiza-

tion Plan No. IV.

78

Reorganization Plan No. IV_

82

Letter of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget construing Reorganiza-

tion Plans Nos. III and IV.

87

Postal Rate Revision and Federal Employees Salary Act of 1948–

Experimental Air Mail Act.

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Transportation of Foreign Mail by Aircraft_

163

Air Parcel Post Act--.

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Alaska Emergency Mail Service___.

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Special Arrangements in the Transportation of Mail in Alaska_

Alaskan Airports---

Provisions in the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act---

Provisions in the Federal Trade Commission Act__

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Provisions in Part II of the Interstate Commerce Act.

List of Decisions Interpreting the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938.

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CIVIL AERONAUTICS ACT OF 19381

[Act of June 23, 1938, 52 Stat. 973; as amended by Act of July 2, 1940, 54 Stat. 735; Act of April 29, 1942, 56 Stat. 265; Act of May 16, 1942, 56 Stat. 300; Act of August 8, 1946, 60 Stat. 944; Act of July 25, 1947, 61 Stat. 449; Act of August 4, 1947, 61 Stat. 743; Act of June 16, 1948, 62 Stat. 470; Act of June 19, 1948, 62 Stat. 493; Act of June 29, 1948, 62 Stat. 1093; Act of July 1, 1948, 62 Stat. 1216.]

AN ACT

To create a Civil Aeronautics Authority, and to promote the development and safety and to provide for the regulation of civil aeronautics.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act, divided into titles and sections according to the following table of contents, may be cited as the "Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938":

Sec. 1. Definitions.

TABLE OF CONTENTS*

TITLE I-GENERAL PROVISIONS

Sec. 2. Declaration of policy.

Sec. 3. Public right of transit.

TITLE II-ORGANIZATION OF AUTHORITY

Sec. 201. Creation of Authority.

(a) Appointment of members of Authority.

(b) Administrator.

(c) Qualifications of members.

(d) Quorum, principal office, and seal.

Sec. 202. Organization of Authority.

(a) Officers and employees.

(b) Temporary personnel.

Sec. 203. Personnel, property, and appropriations. (a) Personnel and Property.

(a) General powers.

(b) Cooperation with State aeronautical agencies.

(c) Exchange of information.

(d) Publications.

Sec. 206. Annual report.

TITLE III-POWERS AND DUTIES OF ADMINISTRATOR

Sec. 301. Fostering of air commerce.

Sec. 302. Civil airways and facilities. (a) General.

(b) Method of establishment.

(c) Airport survey.

1 See Reorganization Plan III, Sec. 7, and Reorganization Plan IV, Sec. 7, post pp. 74 and 82; also footnotes 4 and 5, post p. 10.

*Table of contents has not been amended to reflect additions or changes made by amendment to Secs. 302, 309, 503, 504, and 601.