Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 45 — Fair Housing
§ 3617. Interference, coercion, or intimidation
Statutory text
It shall be unlawful to coerce, intimidate, threaten, or interfere with any person in the exercise or enjoyment of, or on account of his having exercised or enjoyed, or on account of his having aided or encouraged any other person in the exercise or enjoyment of, any right granted or protected by section 3603, 3604, 3605, or 3606 of this title.
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. 90–284 title VIII § 818 · 82 Stat. 73
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 3617
Pub. L. 90–284, title VIII, § 818, formerly § 817, Apr. 11, 1968, 82 Stat. 89
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 90–284, title VIII, § 818, formerly § 817, Apr. 11, 1968, 82 Stat. 89Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 818. appropriations There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such stuns as are necessary to curry out the purposes of this title.Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988
Pub. L. 100–430 · 102 Stat. 1619
Struck · 42 U.S.C. § 3617
Pub. L. 100–430 struck out at end “This section may be enforced by appropriate civil action.”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 100–430 struck out at end “This section may be enforced by appropriate civil action.”Effective date note
Amendment by Pub. L. 100–430 effective on the 180th day beginning after Sept. 13, 1988, see section 13(a) of Pub. L. 100–430, set out as a note under section 3601 of this title.
1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Prior Provisions
A prior section 818 of Pub. L. 90–284 was renumbered section 819 and is classified to section 3618 of this title.
Amendments
1988—Pub. L. 100–430 struck out at end “This section may be enforced by appropriate civil action.”
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date of 1988 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 100–430 effective on the 180th day beginning after , see section 13(a) of Pub. L. 100–430, set out as a note under section 3601 of this title.
Credits
1968–1988 · 2 acts
- 1968Pub. L. 90–284, title VIII, § 818, formerly § 817, , 82 Stat. 89
- 1988renumbered § 818 and amended Pub. L. 100–430, §§ 8(1), 10, , 102 Stat. 1625, 1635.
Show as published
(Pub. L. 90–284, title VIII, § 818, formerly § 817, , 82 Stat. 89; renumbered § 818 and amended Pub. L. 100–430, §§ 8(1), 10, , 102 Stat. 1625, 1635.)