---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 13505"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "13505"
heading: "Transportation furthering a primary business"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/13505"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Interstate Transportation"
  - "Part B — Motor Carriers, Water Carriers, Brokers, and Freight Forwarders"
  - "Chapter 135 — Jurisdiction"
  - "Subchapter I — Motor Carrier Transportation"
---

# §13505. Transportation furthering a primary business

- (a) **In General.—** Neither the [Secretary](/usc/49/13102.md?p=20) nor the [Board](/usc/49/10102.md?p=1) has jurisdiction under this part over the [transportation](/usc/49/10102.md?p=9) of property by [motor vehicle](/usc/49/13102.md?p=16) when—
  - (1) the property is transported by a [person](/usc/49/13102.md?p=18) engaged in a business other than [transportation](/usc/49/10102.md?p=9); and
  - (2) the [transportation](/usc/49/10102.md?p=9) is within the scope of, and furthers a primary business (other than [transportation](/usc/49/10102.md?p=9)) of the [person](/usc/49/13102.md?p=18).
- (b) **Corporate Families.—**
  - (1) **In general.—** Neither the [Secretary](/usc/49/13102.md?p=20) nor the [Board](/usc/49/10102.md?p=1) has jurisdiction under this part over [transportation](/usc/49/10102.md?p=9) of property by [motor vehicle](/usc/49/13102.md?p=16) for compensation provided by a [person](/usc/49/13102.md?p=18) who is a member of a corporate family for other members of such corporate family.
  - (2) **Definition.—** In this section, “corporate family” means a group of corporations consisting of a parent corporation and all subsidiaries in which the parent corporation owns directly or indirectly a 100 percent interest.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–88, title I, § 103, Dec. 29, 1995, 109 Stat. 861.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 10524 of this title prior to the general amendment of this subtitle by Pub. L. 104–88, § 102(a).

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Jan. 1, 1996, except as otherwise provided in Pub. L. 104–88, see section 2 of Pub. L. 104–88, set out as a note under section 1301 of this title.