Aeronautical Statutes and Related Materials

Aeronautical Statutes

and Related Material

The Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938

AND

Other Statutory Provisions
Relating to Civil Aeronautics

TOGETHER WITH

Reorganization Plans No. III and No. IV

AND

Certain Other Non-Statutory Material
Affecting Civil Aeronautics

OCTOBER 15, 1940

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CONTENTS

Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938-

Reorganization Plan No. III with the President's message of transmittal_
Reorganization Plan No. IV with the President's message of transmittal__
Letter of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget construing Reorganiza-
tion Plans No. III and No. IV.

Air Commerce Act of 1926.

Act providing for administration of the Washington National Airport..........

Act relating to public airports__

Decision No. 83 of the National Labor Board_

Civilian Pilot Training Act of 1939.

Act establishing the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics_

Air Mail Act of 1934...

Act relating to transporting of foreign mail by aircraft..

Act relating to experimental air mail service__

149

151

Act providing for special arrangements in the transportation of mail in

Alaska...

153

Act relating to emergency mail service in Alaska..

Act defining post roads__

155

157

Act relating to air navigation in the Canal Zone__

Saving clauses in the Federal Trade Commission Act and in part II of the

Interstate Commerce Act_

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III

CIVIL AERONAUTICS ACT OF 1938

[Act of June 23, 1938, 52 Stat. 973; as amended by Act of July 2, 1940,
Public No. 721]

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) Appointinent of members of Authority.

(b) Administrator.

(c) Qualifications of members.

(d) Quorum, principal office, and seal.

Sec. 202. Organization of Authority.