---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 5186"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "5186"
heading: "Emergency public transportation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/5186"
units:
  - "Chapter 68 — Disaster Relief"
  - "Subchapter IV — Major Disaster Assistance Programs"
---

# §5186. Emergency public transportation


The President is authorized to provide temporary public transportation service in an area affected by a [major disaster](/usc/42/5122.md?p=2) to meet [emergency](/usc/42/5122.md?p=1) needs and to provide transportation to governmental offices, supply centers, stores, post offices, schools, major employment centers, and such other places as may be necessary in order to enable the community to resume its normal pattern of life as soon as possible.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–288, title IV, § 419, formerly § 416, May 22, 1974, 88 Stat. 158; renumbered § 419, Pub. L. 100–707, title I, § 106(j), Nov. 23, 1988, 102 Stat. 4705.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 419 of Pub. L. 93–288 was classified to section 5189 of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 100–707.