Title 50 — War and National Defense
Chapter 52 — Restitution for World War Ii Internment of Japanese-Americans and Aleuts
§ 4217. Documents relating to the internment
Statutory text
Preservation of documents in National Archives
All documents, personal testimony, and other records created or received by the Commission during its inquiry shall be kept and maintained by the Archivist of the United States who shall preserve such documents, testimony, and records in the National Archives of the United States. The Archivist shall make such documents, testimony, and records available to the public for research purposes.
Public availability of certain records of the House of Representatives
The Clerk of the House of Representatives is authorized to permit the Archivist of the United States to make available for use records of the House not classified for national security purposes, which have been in existence for not less than thirty years, relating to the evacuation, relocation, and internment of individuals during the evacuation, relocation, and internment period.
This subsection is enacted as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the House of Representatives, but is applicable only with respect to the availability of records to which it applies, and supersedes other rules only to the extent that the time limitation established by this section with respect to such records is specifically inconsistent with such rules, and is enacted with full recognition of the constitutional right of the House to change its rules at any time, in the same manner and to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of the House.
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.
Civil Liberties Act of 1988
Pub. L. 100–383 title I § 107 · 102 Stat. 903
Enacted · 50 U.S.C. § 4217
(Pub. L. 100–383, title I, § 107, Aug. 10, 1988, 102 Stat. 909.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 100–383, title I, § 107, Aug. 10, 1988, 102 Stat. 909.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 107. DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE INTERNMENT. (a) Preservation of Documents in National Archives.— All documents, personal testimony, and other records created or received by the Commission during its inquiry shall be kept and maintained by the Archivist of the United States who shall preserve such documents, testimony, and records in the National Archives of the United States. The Archivist shall make such documents, testimony, Public information. and records available to the public for research purposes. (b) Public Availability of Certain Records of the House of Representatives.— (1) The Clerk of the House of Representatives is authorized to permit the Archivist of the United States to make available for use records of the House not classified for national security purposes, which have been in existence for not less than thirty years, relating to the evacuation, relocation, and internment of individuals during the evacuation, relocation, and internment period. (2) This subsection is enacted as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the House of Representatives, but is applicable only with respect to the availability of records to which it applies, and supersedes other rules only to the extent that the time limitation established by this section with respect to such records is specifically inconsistent with such rules, and is enacted with full recognition of the constitutional right of the House to change its rules at any time, in the same manner and to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of the House.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 1989b–6 of the former Appendix to this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.