Title 52 — Voting and Elections
Chapter 103 — Enforcement of Voting Rights
§ 10311. Impairment of voting rights of persons holding current registration
Statutory text
Nothing in chapters 103 to 107 of this title shall be construed to deny, impair, or otherwise adversely affect the right to vote of any person registered to vote under the law of any State or political subdivision.
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.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Pub. L. 89–110 title I § 17 · 79 Stat. 437
Enacted · 52 U.S.C. § 10311
Pub. L. 89–110, title I, § 17, Aug. 6, 1965, 79 Stat. 446
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 89–110, title I, § 17, Aug. 6, 1965, 79 Stat. 446Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 17. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to deny, impair, or otherwise adversely affect the right to vote of any person registered to vote under the law of any State or political subdivision.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 1973n of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.
Credits
1965–1970 · 2 acts
- 1965Pub. L. 89–110, title I, § 17, , 79 Stat. 446
- 1970renumbered title I, Pub. L. 91–285, § 2, , 84 Stat. 314.
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(Pub. L. 89–110, title I, § 17, , 79 Stat. 446; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 91–285, § 2, , 84 Stat. 314.)