Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 63 — Lead-Based Paint Poisoning Prevention
§ 4846. State laws superseded, and null and void
Statutory text
It is hereby expressly declared that it is the intent of the Congress to supersede any and all laws of the States and units of local government insofar as they may now or hereafter provide for a requirement, prohibition, or standard relating to the lead content in paints or other similar surface-coating materials which differs from the provisions of this chapter or regulations issued pursuant to this chapter. Any law, regulation, or ordinance purporting to establish such different requirement, prohibition, or standard shall be null and void.
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.
Lead-Based Paint Poisoning Prevention Act
Pub. L. 91–695 title V § 504 · 84 Stat. 2078
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 4846
Pub. L. 91–695, title V, § 504, formerly § 506, as added Pub. L. 93–151, § 7(e), Nov. 9, 1973, 87 Stat. 568
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 91–695, title V, § 504, formerly § 506, as added Pub. L. 93–151, § 7(e), Nov. 9, 1973, 87 Stat. 568
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Prior Provisions
A prior section 504 of Pub. L. 91–695 was classified to section 4844 of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 95–626.
Credits
1973–1978 · 2 acts
- 1973Pub. L. 91–695, title V, § 504, formerly § 506, as added Pub. L. 93–151, § 7(e), , 87 Stat. 568
- 1978renumbered § 504, Pub. L. 95–626, title II, § 208(b), , 92 Stat. 3588.
Show as published
(Pub. L. 91–695, title V, § 504, formerly § 506, as added Pub. L. 93–151, § 7(e), , 87 Stat. 568; renumbered § 504, Pub. L. 95–626, title II, § 208(b), , 92 Stat. 3588.)