operator
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Definitions from Case Law
From 280 U.S. 420 - Tagg Bros. & Moorhead v. United States · 1930Most cited · 620 citing opinions
The term 'operator' in section 310 (b) is an apt designation of one who conducts a market agency at a stockyard.
United States Code
15 U.S.C. § 6501 — in this chapter (2 versions over time)
The term “operator”—
(A) means any person who operates a website located on the Internet or an online service and who collects or maintains personal information from or about the users of or visitors to such website or online service, or on whose behalf such information is collected or maintained, where such website or online service is operated for commercial purposes, including any person offering products or services for sale through that website or online service, involving commerce—
(i) among the several States or with 1 or more foreign nations;
(ii) in any territory of the United States or in the District of Columbia, or between any such territory and—
(I) another such territory; or
(II) any State or foreign nation; or
(iii) between the District of Columbia and any State, territory, or foreign nation; but
(B) does not include any nonprofit entity that would otherwise be exempt from coverage under section 45 of this title.
16 U.S.C. § 973 — as used in this chapter
The term “operator” means any person who is in charge of, directs or controls a vessel, including the owner, charterer, and master.
29 U.S.C. § 2882 — in this subchapter
The term “operator” means an entity selected under this subchapter to operate a Job Corps center.
30 U.S.C. § 1291 — for the purposes of this chapter
“operator” means any person, partnership, or corporation engaged in coal mining who removes or intends to remove more than two hundred and fifty tons of coal from the earth by coal mining within twelve consecutive calendar months in any one location;
30 U.S.C. § 1702 — for the purposes of this chapter
“operator” means any person, including a lessee, who has control of, or who manages operations on, an oil and gas lease site on Federal or Indian lands or on the Outer Continental Shelf;
30 U.S.C. § 802 — in this section
“operator” means any owner, lessee, or other person who operates, controls, or supervises a coal or other mine or any independent contractor performing services or construction at such mine;
33 U.S.C. § 1901 — as used in this chapter (2 versions over time)
“operator” means—
(a) in the case of a ship, a charterer by demise or any other person, except the owner, who is responsible for the operation, manning, victualing, and supplying of the vessel, or
(b) in the case of a terminal, any person, except the owner, responsible for the operation of the terminal by agreement with the owner;
42 U.S.C. § 2014 — in this section
The term “operator” means any individual who manipulates the controls of a utilization or production facility.