---
kind: "section"
citation: "11 U.S.C. § 1162"
title: "11"
title_heading: "Bankruptcy"
number: "1162"
heading: "Definition"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/11/1162"
units:
  - "Chapter 11 — Reorganization"
  - "Subchapter IV — Railroad Reorganization"
---

# §1162. Definition


In this subchapter, “Board” means the “Surface Transportation Board”.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–88, title III, § 302(1), Dec. 29, 1995, 109 Stat. 943.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 1162, Pub. L. 95–598, Nov. 6, 1978, 92 Stat. 2641, defined “Commission”, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 104–88, title III, § 302(1), Dec. 29, 1995, 109 Stat. 943.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Jan. 1, 1996, see section 2 of Pub. L. 104–88, set out as a note under section 1301 of Title 49, Transportation.