---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 13909"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "13909"
heading: "Availability of information"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/13909"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Interstate Transportation"
  - "Part B — Motor Carriers, Water Carriers, Brokers, and Freight Forwarders"
  - "Chapter 139 — Registration"
---

# §13909. Availability of information


The [Secretary](/usc/49/13102.md?p=20) shall make information relating to registration and financial security required by this chapter publicly available on the Internet, including—

- (1) the names and business addresses of the principals of each entity holding such registration;
- (2) the status of such registration; and
- (3) the electronic address of the entity’s surety provider for the submission of claims.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 112–141, div. C, title II, § 32914(b)(1), July 6, 2012, 126 Stat. 819.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 2012, see section 3(a) of Pub. L. 112–141, set out as an Effective and Termination Dates of 2012 Amendment note under section 101 of Title 23, Highways.