---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 31161"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "31161"
heading: "International cooperation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/31161"
units:
  - "Subtitle VI — Motor Vehicle and Driver Programs"
  - "Part B — Commercial"
  - "Chapter 311 — Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety"
  - "Subchapter IV — Miscellaneous"
---

# §31161. International cooperation


The Secretary of Transportation is authorized to use funds made available by [section 31110](/usc/49/31110.md) to participate and cooperate in international activities to enhance motor carrier, [commercial motor vehicle](/usc/49/31101.md?p=1), driver, and highway safety by such means as exchanging information, conducting research, and examining needs, best practices, and new technology.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 109–59, title IV, § 4119(a), Aug. 10, 2005, 119 Stat. 1733; amended Pub. L. 114–94, div. A, title V, § 5103(c)(3), Dec. 4, 2015, 129 Stat. 1527.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Prior sections 31161 and 31162 were repealed by Pub. L. 105–178, title IV, § 4010, June 9, 1998, 112 Stat. 407.

Section 31161, Pub. L. 103–272, § 1(e), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 1013, related to procedures to ensure timely correction of safety violations.

Section 31162, Pub. L. 103–272, § 1(e), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 1014, related to compliance review priority.

### Amendments

2015—Pub. L. 114–94 substituted “section 31110” for “section 31104(i)”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2015 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 114–94 effective Oct. 1, 2015, see section 1003 of Pub. L. 114–94, set out as a note under section 5313 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.