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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Chapter 68 — Disaster Relief

§ 5195b. Administration of subchapter

Statutory text

This subchapter shall be carried out by the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

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 VI § 603 · 88 Stat. 143

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 5195b

    Pub. L. 93–288, title VI, § 603, as added Pub. L. 103–337, div. C, title XXXIV, § 3411(a)(3), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 3102

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 93–288, title VI, § 603, as added Pub. L. 103–337, div. C, title XXXIV, § 3411(a)(3), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 3102

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 603. The Disaster Relief Act of 1970, as amended (84 Stat. 42 USC 4451; 38 USC 1820; 42 USC 4453–4456. 42 USC 4401 notes, 4434 note. 1744), is hereby repealed, except sections 231, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 301, 302, 303, and 304. Notwithstanding such repeal the provisions of the Disaster Relief Act of 1970 shall continue in effect with respect to any major disaster declared prior to the enactment of this Act.

  2. Predisaster Hazard Mitigation Act of 2010

    Pub. L. 111–351 § 3(c)(2) · 124 Stat. 3863

    Substituted · 42 U.S.C. § 5195b

    Pub. L. 111–351 substituted “Administrator” for “Director”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 111–351 substituted “Administrator” for “Director”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (2) by striking “Director” each place it appears and inserting “Administrator”, except— (A) in section 622 (42 U.S.C. 5197a)— (i) in the second and fourth places it appears in subsection (c); and (ii) in subsection (d); and (B) in section 626(b) (42 U.S.C. 5197e(b)).

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2011—Pub. L. 111–351 substituted “Administrator” for “Director”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Transfer of Functions

For transfer of all functions, personnel, assets, components, authorities, grant programs, and liabilities of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, including the functions of the Under Secretary for Federal Emergency Management relating thereto, to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, see section 315(a)(1) of Title 6, Domestic Security.

For transfer of functions, personnel, assets, and liabilities of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, including the functions of the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency relating thereto, to the Secretary of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see former section 313(1) and sections 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of , as modified, set out as a note under section 542 of Title 6.

Credits

1994–2011 · 2 acts
  1. 1994Pub. L. 93–288, title VI, § 603, as added Pub. L. 103–337, div. C, title XXXIV, § 3411(a)(3), , 108 Stat. 3102
  2. 2011amended Pub. L. 111–351, § 3(c)(2), , 124 Stat. 3864.
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(Pub. L. 93–288, title VI, § 603, as added Pub. L. 103–337, div. C, title XXXIV, § 3411(a)(3), , 108 Stat. 3102; amended Pub. L. 111–351, § 3(c)(2), , 124 Stat. 3864.)

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