---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 5186"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "5186"
heading: "Emergency public transportation"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/5186"
units:
  - "Chapter 68 — Disaster Relief"
  - "Subchapter IV — Major Disaster Assistance Programs"
---

# §5186. Emergency public transportation


The President is authorized to provide temporary public transportation service in an area affected by a [major disaster](/usc/42/5122.md?p=2) to meet [emergency](/usc/42/5122.md?p=1) needs and to provide transportation to governmental [offices](/usc/42/3058f.md?p=1), supply centers, stores, post [offices](/usc/42/3058f.md?p=1), [schools](/usc/42/6372.md?p=1), major employment centers, and such other places as may be necessary in order to enable the community to resume its normal pattern of life as soon as possible.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–288, title IV, § 419, formerly § 416, May 22, 1974, 88 Stat. 158; renumbered § 419, Pub. L. 100–707, title I, § 106(j), Nov. 23, 1988, 102 Stat. 4705.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 419 of Pub. L. 93–288 was classified to section 5189 of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 100–707.