---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 1172"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "1172"
heading: "Railroad security enhancements; Model State legislation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/1172"
units:
  - "Chapter 4 — Transportation Security"
  - "Subchapter IV — Surface Transportation Security"
  - "Part B — Railroad Security"
---

# §1172. Railroad security enhancements; Model State legislation


Not later than November 2, 2007, the [Secretary](/usc/6/1101.md?p=2) of Transportation shall develop and make available to [States](/usc/6/101.md?p=17) model legislation to address the problem of [entities](/usc/6/301c.md?p=2) that claim to be railroad carriers in order to establish and run a police force when the [entities](/usc/6/301c.md?p=2) do not in fact provide railroad transportation. In developing the model [State](/usc/6/101.md?p=17) legislation the [Secretary](/usc/6/1101.md?p=2) shall solicit the input of the [States](/usc/6/101.md?p=17), railroads carriers, and railroad carrier employees. The [Secretary](/usc/6/1101.md?p=2) shall review and, if necessary, revise such model [State](/usc/6/101.md?p=17) legislation periodically.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 110–53, title XV, § 1526(b), Aug. 3, 2007, 121 Stat. 452.)