Title 34 — Crime Control and Law Enforcement
Part A · Chapter 209 — Child Protection and Safety
§ 20912. Registry requirements for jurisdictions
Statutory text
Jurisdiction to maintain a registry
Each jurisdiction shall maintain a jurisdiction-wide sex offender registry conforming to the requirements of this subchapter.
Guidelines and regulations
The Attorney General shall issue guidelines and regulations to interpret and implement this subchapter.
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.
Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act
Pub. L. 109–248 title I § 112 · 120 Stat. 587
Enacted · 34 U.S.C. § 20912
(Pub. L. 109–248, title I, § 112, July 27, 2006, 120 Stat. 593.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 109–248, title I, § 112, July 27, 2006, 120 Stat. 593.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 112. REGISTRY REQUIREMENTS FOR JURISDICTIONS. (a) Jurisdiction To Maintain a Registry.— Each jurisdiction shall maintain a jurisdiction-wide sex offender registry conforming to the requirements of this title. (b) Guidelines and Regulations.— The Attorney General shall issue guidelines and regulations to interpret and implement this title.
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 I of Pub. L. 109–248, , 120 Stat. 590, known as the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act. For complete classification of title I to the Code, see Short Title of 2006 Act note set out under section 10101 of this title and Tables.
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 16912 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.