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49 U.S.C. § 44916 — Assessments and evaluations

submitted 30 years ago by Pub. L. 104-264 to r/title-49-TRANSPORTATION · 121 words · no verdicts yet

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Airlines and airports must regularly check their own security systems for weaknesses. The TSA audits those checks and also runs its own surprise inspections. The TSA may run undercover tests of security systems where the law allows.

(a) Periodic assessments. The Administrator of the TSA must require every air carrier and every airport that provides flights within a state, between states, or internationally -- including the airport's owner or operator, working together with the air carriers and vendors that serve that airport -- to regularly check the security systems for weaknesses. This is called a vulnerability assessment. The TSA must periodically audit these self-assessments to check their accuracy. (b) Investigations. The Administrator must also conduct the TSA's own inspections of airport and airline security systems, both on a regular schedule and unannounced, to figure out how well those systems work and where they are vulnerable. As far as the law allows, the Administrator may run anonymous, undercover tests of those security systems.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain
(a)Periodic Assessments.—

The Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration shall require each air carrier and airport (including the airport owner or operator in cooperation with the air carriers and vendors serving each airport) that provides for intrastate, interstate, or foreign air transportation to conduct periodic vulnerability assessments of the security systems of that air carrier or airport, respectively. The Transportation Security Administration shall perform periodic audits of such assessments.

(b)Investigations.—

The Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration shall conduct periodic and unannounced inspections of security systems of airports and air carriers to determine the effectiveness and vulnerabilities of such systems. To the extent allowable by law, the Administrator may provide for anonymous tests of those security systems.

Source credit: (Added Pub. L. 104–264, title III, § 312(a), Oct. 9, 1996, 110 Stat. 3253; amended Pub. L. 107–71, title I, § 101(f)(3), (7), Nov. 19, 2001, 115 Stat. 603; Pub. L. 115–254, div. K, title I, § 1991(d)(14), Oct. 5, 2018, 132 Stat. 3635.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1996Enacted · Pub. L. 104-264 · 110 Stat. 3253
  • 2001Amended · Pub. L. 107-71 · 115 Stat. 603
  • 2018Amended · Pub. L. 115-254 · 132 Stat. 3635

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 104-264 on 1996-10-09.

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