Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 1 — The Public Health Service
§ 27. Definitions
Statutory text
The terms “State” and “States,” as used in this chapter, shall be held to include the District of Columbia.
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. 65–143 · 40 Stat. 845
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 27
(July 9, 1918, ch. 143, ch. XV, § 8, 40 Stat. 887.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(July 9, 1918, ch. 143, ch. XV, § 8, 40 Stat. 887.)
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Editorial Notes
References in Text
This chapter, referred to in text, means chapter XV of act July 9, 1918, ch. 143, 40 Stat. 887, which, insofar as classified to the Code, enacted sections 24 to 27 of this title and amended section 28 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.
Credits
(July 9, 1918, ch. 143, ch. XV, § 8, 40 Stat. 887.)