42 U.S.C. § 7431
Section 7431 · Land use authority
Amended 2 times on record
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Myersville Citizens for a Rural Community, Inc. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (2015)
Most recently applied in 414 U.S. App. D.C. 438 - Myersville Citizens for a Rural Community, Inc. v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (April 2015)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Nothing in this chapter constitutes an infringement on the existing authority of counties and cities to plan or control land use, and nothing in this chapter provides or transfers authority over such land use.