§ 12146. Definitions

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. 1994

   Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994

   Pub. L. 103–322 title III § 30306 · 108 Stat. 1796

   Enacted · 34 U.S.C. § 12146

   (Pub. L. 103–322, title III, § 30306, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1846.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (Pub. L. 103–322, title III, § 30306, Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1846.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   SEC. 30306. DEFINITIONS. In this subtitle— “chief local elected official” means an official designated under regulations issued by the Attorney General. The criteria used by the Attorney General in promulgating such regulations shall ensure administrative efficiency and accountability in the expenditure of funds and execution of funded projects under this subtitle. “chronic high intensity crime area” means an area meeting criteria adopted by the Attorney General by regulation that, at a minimum, define areas with— (A) consistently high rates of violent crime as reported in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s “Uniform Crime Reports”, and (B) chronically high rates of poverty as determined by the Bureau of the Census. “State” means a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands.

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