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C.F.R - Table of Contents

  • Title 1 - General Provisions
  • Title 2 - Grants and Agreements
  • Title 3 - The President
  • Title 4 - Accounts
  • Title 5 - Administrative Personnel
  • Title 6 - Domestic Security
  • Title 7 - Agriculture
  • Title 8 - Aliens and Nationality
  • Title 9 - Animals and Animal Products
  • Title 10 - Energy
  • Title 11 - Federal Elections
  • Title 12 - Banks and Banking
  • Title 13 - Business Credit and Assistance
  • Title 14 - Aeronautics and Space
  • Title 15 - Commerce and Foreign Trade
  • Title 16 - Commercial Practices
  • Title 17 - Commodity and Securities Exchanges
  • Title 18 - Conservation of Power and Water Resources
  • Title 19 - Customs Duties
  • Title 20 - Employees' Benefits
  • Title 21 - Food and Drugs
  • Title 22 - Foreign Relations
  • Title 23 - Highways
  • Title 24 - Housing and Urban Development
  • Title 25 - Indians
  • Title 26 - Internal Revenue
  • Title 27 - Alcohol, Tobacco Products and Firearms
  • Title 28 - Judicial Administration
  • Title 29 - Labor
  • Title 30 - Mineral Resources
  • Title 31 - Money and Finance: Treasury
  • Title 32 - National Defense
  • Title 33 - Navigation and Navigable Waters
  • Title 34 - Education
  • Title 35 - Panama Canal
  • Title 36 - Parks, Forests, and Public Property
  • Title 37 - Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights
  • Title 38 - Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief
  • Title 39 - Postal Service
  • Title 40 - Protection of Environment
  • Title 41 - Public Contracts and Property Management
  • Title 42 - Public Health
  • Title 43 - Public Lands: Interior
  • Title 44 - Emergency Management and Assistance
  • Title 45 - Public Welfare
  • Title 46 - Shipping
  • Title 47 - Telecommunication
  • Title 48 - Federal Acquisition Regulations System
  • Title 49 - Transportation
  • Title 50 - Wildlife and Fisheries

CFR > Title 49 - Transportation > SUBTITLE B—Other Regulations Relating to Transportation > CHAPTER I—PIPELINE AND HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SAFETY ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (Parts 105–199) > SUBCHAPTER C—HAZARDOUS MATERIALS REGULATIONS (Parts 171–181) > PART 171—GENERAL INFORMATION, REGULATIONS, AND DEFINITIONS > SUBPART A—Applicability, General Requirements, and North American Shipments (§171.1 to §171.14) > 171.9—Rules of construction.

171.9—Rules of construction.

(a) In this subchapter, unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) Words imparting the singular include the plural;
(2) Words imparting the plural include the singular; and
(3) Words imparting the masculine gender include the feminine;
(b) In this subchapter, the word: (1) “Shall” is used in an imperative sense;
(2) “Must” is used in an imperative sense;
(3) “Should” is used in a recommendatory sense;
(4) “May” is used in a permissive sense to state authority or permission to do the act described, and the words “no person may * * *” or “a person may not * * *” means that no person is required, authorized, or permitted to do the act described; and
(5) “Includes” is used as a word of inclusion not limitation.
[Amdt. 171-32, 41 FR 15996, Apr. 15, 1976, as amended by Amdt. 171-32A, 41 FR 40630, Sept. 20, 1976; Amdt. 171-121, 58 FR 51528, Oct. 1, 1993; 75 FR 60338, Sept. 30, 2010]




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