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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Chapter 68 — Disaster Relief

§ 5163. Limitation on use of sliding scales

Statutory text

No geographic area shall be precluded from receiving assistance under this chapter solely by virtue of an arithmetic formula or sliding scale based on income or population.

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. 93–288 title III § 320 · 88 Stat. 143

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 5163

    (Pub. L. 93–288, title III, § 320, as added Pub. L. 100–707, title I, § 105(m)(1), Nov. 23, 1988, 102 Stat. 4696.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 93–288, title III, § 320, as added Pub. L. 100–707, title I, § 105(m)(1), Nov. 23, 1988, 102 Stat. 4696.)

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Editorial Notes

References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 93–288, , 88 Stat. 143. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 5121 of this title and Tables.

Credits

(Pub. L. 93–288, title III, § 320, as added Pub. L. 100–707, title I, § 105(m)(1), , 102 Stat. 4696.)

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