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Title 34 — Crime Control and Law Enforcement

Chapter 501 — Emergency Federal Law Enforcement Assistance

§ 50109. Bureau of Justice Assistance

Statutory text

The Director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance may assist the Attorney General in providing Federal law enforcement assistance under this chapter and in coordinating the activities authorized under this chapter.

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. Pub. L. 98–473 title II § 609V · 98 Stat. 1837

    Enacted · 34 U.S.C. § 50109

    (Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 609V, Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 2106.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 609V, Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 2106.)

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Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 10510 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Transfer of Functions

Effective , all functions of Director of Bureau of Justice Assistance, other than those enumerated in section 10142(3) to (6) of this title, transferred to Assistant Attorney General for Office of Justice Programs, see section 1000(a)(1) [title I, § 108(b)] of Pub. L. 106–113, set out as a note under section 10141 of this title.

Credits

(Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 609V, , 98 Stat. 2106.)

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