PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

The Secretary of Transportation must create and run a public website that lists countries that may require airlines to treat passenger cabins with insecticides before an international flight or to spray aerosol insecticide inside a cabin while passengers are on board. Any U.S. airline, foreign airline, or ticket agent selling a ticket in the United States for a flight to a country on that list must tell the buyer—on its website or by other clear means—that the destination may require such cabin insecticide treatment and must refer the buyer to the Department of Transportation website for more information.

Title 49, §42303

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(a)Information To Be Provided on the Internet.—

The Secretary of Transportation shall establish, and make available to the general public, an Internet Web site that contains a listing of countries that may require an air carrier or foreign air carrier to treat an aircraft passenger cabin with insecticides prior to a flight in foreign air transportation to that country or to apply an aerosol insecticide in an aircraft cabin used for such a flight when the cabin is occupied with passengers.

(b)Required Disclosures.—

An air carrier, foreign air carrier, or ticket agent selling, in the United States, a ticket for a flight in foreign air transportation to a country listed on the internet website established under subsection (a) shall—

(1)disclose, on its own internet website or through other means, that the destination country may require the air carrier or foreign air carrier to treat an aircraft passenger cabin with insecticides prior to the flight or to apply an aerosol insecticide in an aircraft cabin used for such a flight when the cabin is occupied with passengers; and

(2)refer the purchaser of the ticket to the internet website established under subsection (a) for additional information.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2018—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 115–254 amended subsec. (b) generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “An air carrier, foreign air carrier, or ticket agent selling, in the United States, a ticket for a flight in foreign air transportation to a country listed on the Internet Web site established under subsection (a) shall refer the purchaser of the ticket to the Internet Web site established under subsection (a) for additional information.”

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Requirements of this section to begin to apply 60 days after Feb. 14, 2012, except as otherwise provided, see section 415(c) of Pub. L. 112–95, set out as a note under section 42301 of this title.

§42303 Use of Insecticides in Passenger Aircraft