---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 1324"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "1324"
heading: "Service of process in court proceedings"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/1324"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Other Government Agencies"
  - "Chapter 13 — Surface Transportation Board"
  - "Subchapter II — Administrative"
---

# §1324. Service of process in court proceedings

- (a) **Designation of Agent.—** A carrier providing transportation subject to the jurisdiction of the Board under subtitle IV shall designate an agent on whom service of process in an action before a district court may be made. Except as otherwise provided, process in an action before a district court shall be served on the designated agent of that carrier at the office or usual place of residence of that agent. If the carrier does not have a designated agent, service may be made by posting the notice in the office of the Board.
- (b) **Changing Designation.—** A designation under this section may be changed at any time in the same manner as originally made.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–88, title II, § 201(a), Dec. 29, 1995, 109 Stat. 937, § 724; renumbered § 1324 and amended Pub. L. 114–110, §§ 3(a)(5), 8(b), Dec. 18, 2015, 129 Stat. 2228, 2232.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2015—Pub. L. 114–110, § 3(a)(3), renumbered section 724 of this title as this section.

Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 114–110, § 8(b), struck out “in the District of Columbia” after “designate an agent” and “usual place of residence”.