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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Chapter 68 — Disaster Relief

§ 5189b. Date of eligibility; expenses incurred before date of disaster

Statutory text

Eligibility for Federal assistance under this subchapter shall begin on the date of the occurrence of the event which results in a declaration by the President that a major disaster exists; except that reasonable expenses which are incurred in anticipation of and immediately preceding such event may be eligible for Federal assistance under this chapter.

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 § 424 · 88 Stat. 143

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 5189b

    (Pub. L. 93–288, title IV, § 424, as added Pub. L. 100–707, title I, § 106(l), Nov. 23, 1988, 102 Stat. 4706.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 93–288, title IV, § 424, as added Pub. L. 100–707, title I, § 106(l), Nov. 23, 1988, 102 Stat. 4706.)

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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 IV, § 424, as added Pub. L. 100–707, title I, § 106(l), , 102 Stat. 4706.)

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