Title 21 — Food and Drugs
Part F · Chapter 13 — Drug Abuse Prevention and Control
§ 903. Application of State law
Statutory text
No provision of this subchapter shall be construed as indicating an intent on the part of the Congress to occupy the field in which that provision operates, including criminal penalties, to the exclusion of any State law on the same subject matter which would otherwise be within the authority of the State, unless there is a positive conflict between that provision of this subchapter and that State law so that the two cannot consistently stand together.
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.
Controlled Substances Act
Pub. L. 91–513 title II § 708 · 84 Stat. 1236
Enacted · 21 U.S.C. § 903
(Pub. L. 91–513, title II, § 708, Oct. 27, 1970, 84 Stat. 1284.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 91–513, title II, § 708, Oct. 27, 1970, 84 Stat. 1284.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 708. application of state law No provision of this title shall be construed as indicating an intent on the part of the Congress to occupy the field in which that provision operates, including criminal penalties, to the exclusion of any State law on the same subject matter which would otherwise be within the authority of the State, unless there is a positive conflict between that provision of this title and that State law so that the two cannot consistently stand together.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
This subchapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this title”, meaning title II of Pub. L. 91–513, , 84 Stat. 1242, and is popularly known as the “Controlled Substances Act”. For complete classification of title II to the Code, see second paragraph of Short Title note set out under section 801 of this title and Tables.