Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 124 — Public Housing Drug Elimination
§ 11921. Statement of purpose
Statutory text
The purpose of this subchapter is to reaffirm the principle that decent affordable shelter is a basic necessity, and the general welfare of the Nation and the health and living standards of its people require better coordination and training in drug prevention programs among the public officials and agencies responsible for administering the public housing programs of the Nation.
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.
Drug-Free Public Housing Act of 1988
Pub. L. 100–690 title V § 5142 · 102 Stat. 4181
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 11921
(Pub. L. 100–690, title V, § 5142, Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4303.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 100–690, title V, § 5142, Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4303.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 5142. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE. The purpose of this chapter is to reaffirm the principle that decent affordable shelter is a basic necessity, and the general welfare of the Nation and the health and living standards of its people require better coordination and training in drug prevention programs among the public officials and agencies responsible for administering the public housing programs of the Nation.
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