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Title 21 — Food and Drugs

Chapter 24 — International Narcotics Trafficking

§ 1902. Purpose

Statutory text

The purpose of this chapter is to provide authority for the identification of, and application of sanctions on a worldwide basis to, significant foreign narcotics traffickers, their organizations, and the foreign persons who provide support to those significant foreign narcotics traffickers and their organizations, whose activities threaten the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States.

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. Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000

    Pub. L. 106–120 title VIII § 803 · 113 Stat. 1606

    Enacted · 21 U.S.C. § 1902

    (Pub. L. 106–120, title VIII, § 803, Dec. 3, 1999, 113 Stat. 1626.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 106–120, title VIII, § 803, Dec. 3, 1999, 113 Stat. 1626.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 803. PURPOSE. The purpose of this title is to provide authority for the identification of, and application of sanctions on a worldwide basis to, significant foreign narcotics traffickers, their organizations, and the foreign persons who provide support to those significant foreign narcotics traffickers and their organizations, whose activities threaten the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this title”, meaning title VIII of Pub. L. 106–120, , 113 Stat. 1626, which is classified generally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1901 of this title and Tables.

Credits

(Pub. L. 106–120, title VIII, § 803, , 113 Stat. 1626.)

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