---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 31161"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "31161"
heading: "International cooperation"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/31161"
units:
  - "Subtitle VI — Motor Vehicle and Driver Programs"
  - "Part B — Commercial"
  - "Chapter 311 — Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety"
  - "Subchapter IV — Miscellaneous"
---

# §31161. International cooperation


The Secretary of [Transportation](/usc/49/13907.md?p=e-2) is authorized to use funds made available by [section 31110](/usc/49/31110.md) to participate and cooperate in international activities to enhance motor carrier, commercial motor vehicle, driver, and highway safety by such means as exchanging information, conducting research, and examining needs, best practices, and new technology.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 109–59, title IV, § 4119(a), Aug. 10, 2005, 119 Stat. 1733; amended Pub. L. 114–94, div. A, title V, § 5103(c)(3), Dec. 4, 2015, 129 Stat. 1527.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Prior sections 31161 and 31162 were repealed by Pub. L. 105–178, title IV, § 4010, June 9, 1998, 112 Stat. 407.

Section 31161, Pub. L. 103–272, § 1(e), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 1013, related to procedures to ensure timely correction of safety violations.

Section 31162, Pub. L. 103–272, § 1(e), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 1014, related to compliance review priority.

### Amendments

2015—Pub. L. 114–94 substituted “section 31110” for “section 31104(i)”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2015 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 114–94 effective Oct. 1, 2015, see section 1003 of Pub. L. 114–94, set out as a note under section 5313 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.