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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Chapter 23 — Development and Control of Atomic Energy

§ 2240. Licensee incident reports as evidence

Statutory text

No report by any licensee of any incident arising out of or in connection with a licensed activity made pursuant to any requirement of the Commission shall be admitted as evidence in any suit or action for damages growing out of any matter mentioned in such report.

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. 87–206 § 16 · 75 Stat. 475

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 2240

    Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, title I, § 190, as added Pub. L. 87–206, § 16, Sept. 6, 1961, 75 Stat. 479

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, title I, § 190, as added Pub. L. 87–206, § 16, Sept. 6, 1961, 75 Stat. 479

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 16. The Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, is amended 68 Stat. 919. 42 USC 2011 note. by adding thereto the following new section: “Sec. 190. Licensee Incident Reports.—No report by any licensee of any incident arising out of or in connection with a licensed activity made pursuant to any requirement of the Commission shall be admitted as evidence in any suit or action for damages growing out of any matter mentioned in such report.”

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

1946–1992 · 2 acts
  1. 1946Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, title I, § 190, as added Pub. L. 87–206, § 16, , 75 Stat. 479
  2. 1992renumbered title I, Pub. L. 102–486, title IX, § 902(a)(8), , 106 Stat. 2944.
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(Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, title I, § 190, as added Pub. L. 87–206, § 16, , 75 Stat. 479; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 102–486, title IX, § 902(a)(8), , 106 Stat. 2944.)

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