---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 341"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "341"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/341"
units:
  - "Part I — Crimes"
  - "Chapter 17A — Common Carrier Operation under the Influence of Alcohol or Drugs"
---

# §341. Definitions


As used in this chapter, the term “common carrier” means a locomotive, a rail carrier, a sleeping car carrier, a bus transporting passengers in interstate [commerce](/usc/18/232.md?p=2), a water common carrier, and an air common carrier.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 99–570, title I, § 1971(a), Oct. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 3207–59; amended Pub. L. 100–690, title VI, § 6482(a), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4382.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1988—Pub. L. 100–690 inserted “locomotive, a” after “means a”.