Title 50 — War and National Defense
Chapter 32 — Chemical and Biological Warfare Program
§ 1518. Disposal; detoxification; report to Congress; emergencies
Statutory text
On and after , no chemical or biological warfare agent shall be disposed of within or outside the United States unless such agent has been detoxified or made harmless to man and his environment unless immediate disposal is clearly necessary, in an emergency, to safeguard human life. An immediate report should be made to Congress in the event of such disposal.
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.
Pub. L. 91–441 title V § 506(d) · 84 Stat. 905
Enacted · 50 U.S.C. § 1518
(Pub. L. 91–441, title V, § 506(d), Oct. 7, 1970, 84 Stat. 913.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 91–441, title V, § 506(d), Oct. 7, 1970, 84 Stat. 913.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(d) On and after the date of enactment of this Act, no chemical or biological warfare agent shall be disposed of within or outside the United States unless such agent has been detoxified or made harmless to man and his environment unless immediate disposal is clearly necessary, in an emergency, to safeguard human life. An immediate report should be made to Congress in the event of such disposal.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was not enacted as part of Pub. L. 91–121, title IV, § 409, , 83 Stat. 209, which comprises this chapter.