Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 15A — Reciprocal Fire Protection Agreements
§ 1856b. Emergency assistance
Statutory text
In the absence of any agreement authorized or ratified by section 1856a of this title, each agency head is authorized to render emergency assistance in extinguishing fires and in preserving life and property from fire, within the vicinity of any place at which such agency maintains fire-protection facilities, when the rendition of such assistance is determined, under regulations prescribed by the agency head, to be in the best interest of the United States.
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.
Pub. L. 84–105 § 3 · 69 Stat. 188
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 1856b
(May 27, 1955, ch. 105, § 3, 69 Stat. 67.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(May 27, 1955, ch. 105, § 3, 69 Stat. 67.)
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Credits
(May 27, 1955, ch. 105, § 3, 69 Stat. 67.)