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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Chapter 68 — Disaster Relief

§ 5186. Emergency public transportation

Statutory text

The President is authorized to provide temporary public transportation service in an area affected by a major disaster to meet emergency needs and to provide transportation to governmental offices, supply centers, stores, post offices, schools, major employment centers, and such other places as may be necessary in order to enable the community to resume its normal pattern of life as soon as possible.

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 IV § 419 · 88 Stat. 143

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 5186

    Pub. L. 93–288, title IV, § 419, formerly § 416, May 22, 1974, 88 Stat. 158

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 93–288, title IV, § 419, formerly § 416, May 22, 1974, 88 Stat. 158

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 419. In any case in which the Federal estimate of the total 42 USC 5189. cost of (1) repairing, restoring, reconstructing, or replacing, under section 402, all damaged or destroyed public facilities owned by a State or local government within its jurisdiction, and (2) emergency assistance under section 306 and debris removed under section 403, is less than $25,000, then on application of a State or local government, the President is authorized to make a contribution to such State or local government under the provisions of this section in lieu of any contribution to such State or local government under section 306, 402, or 403. Such contribution shall be based on 100 per centum of such total estimated cost, which may be expended either to repair, restore, reconstruct, or replace all such damaged or destroyed public facilities, to repair, restore, reconstruct, or replace certain selected damaged or destroyed public facilities, to construct new public facilities which the State or local government determines to be necessary to meet its needs for governmental services and functions in the disaster-affected area, or to undertake disaster work as authorized in section 306 or 403. The cost of repairing, restoring, reconstructing, or replacing damaged or destroyed public facilities shall be estimated on the basis of the design of each such facility as it existed immediately prior to such disaster and in conformity with current applicable codes, specifications and standards.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

Credits

1974–1988 · 2 acts
  1. 1974Pub. L. 93–288, title IV, § 419, formerly § 416, , 88 Stat. 158
  2. 1988renumbered § 419, Pub. L. 100–707, title I, § 106(j), , 102 Stat. 4705.
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(Pub. L. 93–288, title IV, § 419, formerly § 416, , 88 Stat. 158; renumbered § 419, Pub. L. 100–707, title I, § 106(j), , 102 Stat. 4705.)

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