---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 47526"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "47526"
heading: "Limitations for noncomplying airport noise and access restrictions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/47526"
units:
  - "Subtitle VII — Aviation Programs"
  - "Part B — Airport Development and Noise"
  - "Chapter 475 — Noise"
  - "Subchapter II — National Aviation Noise Policy"
---

# §47526. Limitations for noncomplying airport noise and access restrictions


Unless the Secretary of Transportation is satisfied that an [airport](/usc/49/47501.md?p=1) is not imposing an [airport](/usc/49/47501.md?p=1) noise or access restriction not in compliance with this subchapter, the [airport](/usc/49/47501.md?p=1) may not—

- (1) receive money under subchapter I of [chapter 471](/usc/49/chstVII/ptB/ch471.md) of this title; or
- (2) impose a passenger facility charge under [section 40117 of this title](/usc/49/40117.md).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–272, § 1(e), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 1291; Pub. L. 112–95, title I, § 111(c)(2)(A)(viii), Feb. 14, 2012, 126 Stat. 18.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 47526 | 49 App.:2156. | Nov. 5, 1990, Pub. L. 101–508, § 9307, 104 Stat. 1388–382. |

In this section, before clause (1), the words “Under no conditions” are omitted as surplus. In clause (2), the words “or collect” are omitted as surplus.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2012—Par. (2). Pub. L. 112–95 substituted “charge” for “fee”.