Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Part I · Chapter 11B — Chemical Weapons
§ 229C. Individual self-defense devices
Statutory text
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit any individual self-defense device, including those using a pepper spray or chemical mace.
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.
Pub. L. 105–277 div. I title II § 201(a) · 112 Stat. 2681
Enacted · 18 U.S.C. § 229C
(Added Pub. L. 105–277, div. I, title II, § 201(a), Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–869.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Added Pub. L. 105–277, div. I, title II, § 201(a), Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–869.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 201. During the current fiscal year, applicable appropriations and funds made available to the Department of Commerce by this Act shall be available for the activities specified in the Act of October 26, 1949 (15 U.S.C. 1514), to the extent and in the manner prescribed by the Act, and, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3324, may be used for advanced payments not otherwise authorized only upon the certification of officials designated by the Secretary of Commerce that such payments are in the public interest.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(Added Pub. L. 105–277, div. I, title II, § 201(a), , 112 Stat. 2681–869.)