---
kind: "section"
citation: "45 U.S.C. § 163"
title: "45"
title_heading: "Railroads"
number: "163"
heading: "Repeal of prior legislation; exception"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/45/163"
units:
  - "Chapter 8 — Railway Labor"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §163. Repeal of prior legislation; exception


Chapters [6](/usc/45/chch6.md) and [7](/usc/45/chch7.md) of this title, providing for mediation, conciliation, and arbitration, and all Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this chapter are repealed, except that the members, [secretary](/usc/45/1104.md?p=7), officers, employees, and agents of the Railroad Labor Board, in office on May 20, 1926, shall receive their salaries for a period of 30 days from such date, in the same manner as though this chapter had not been passed.


## Source credit

(May 20, 1926, ch. 347, § 14, 44 Stat. 587.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Chapters 6 and 7 of this title, referred to in text, were in the original references to the act of July 15, 1913, and title III of the Transportation Act, 1920, respectively.