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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Chapter 21 — Civil Rights

§ 1997d. Prohibition of retaliation

Statutory text

No person reporting conditions which may constitute a violation under this subchapter shall be subjected to retaliation in any manner for so reporting.

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. Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act

    Pub. L. 96–247 § 6 · 94 Stat. 349

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 1997d

    (Pub. L. 96–247, § 6, May 23, 1980, 94 Stat. 352.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 96–247, § 6, May 23, 1980, 94 Stat. 352.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 6. PROHIBITION OF RETALIATION. No person reporting conditions which may constitute a violation under this Act shall be subjected to retaliation in any manner for so reporting.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 96–247, § 6, , 94 Stat. 352.)

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