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Title 15 — Commerce and Trade

Chapter 93 — Insurance

§ 6717. Definition of State

Statutory text

For purposes of this subchapter, the term “State” means any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, any territory of the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 106–102 title III § 308 · 113 Stat. 1338

    Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 6717

    (Pub. L. 106–102, title III, § 308, Nov. 12, 1999, 113 Stat. 1417.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 106–102, title III, § 308, Nov. 12, 1999, 113 Stat. 1417.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 308. DEFINITION OF STATE. For purposes of this subtitle, the term “State” means any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, any territory of the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, the Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This subchapter, referred to in text, was in original “this subtitle”, meaning subtitle A (§ 301 et seq.) of title III of Pub. L. 106–102, which enacted this subchapter and section 1831x of Title 12, Banks and Banking. For complete classification of this subtitle to the Code, see Tables.

Executive Documents

Termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands

For termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, see note set out preceding section 1681 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.

Credits

(Pub. L. 106–102, title III, § 308, , 113 Stat. 1417.)

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