Title 52 — Voting and Elections
Chapter 207 — Federal Election Records
§ 20704. Disclosure of records or papers
Statutory text
Unless otherwise ordered by a court of the United States, neither the Attorney General nor any employee of the Department of Justice, nor any other representative of the Attorney General, shall disclose any record or paper produced pursuant to this chapter, or any reproduction or copy, except to Congress and any committee thereof, governmental agencies, and in the presentation of any case or proceeding before any court or grand jury.
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 Rights Act of 1960
Pub. L. 86–449 title III § 304 · 74 Stat. 86
Enacted · 52 U.S.C. § 20704
(Pub. L. 86–449, title III, § 304, May 6, 1960, 74 Stat. 88.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 86–449, title III, § 304, May 6, 1960, 74 Stat. 88.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 304. Unless otherwise ordered by a court of the United States, neither the Attorney General nor any employee of the Department of Justice, nor any other representative of the Attorney General, shall disclose any record or paper produced pursuant to this title, or any reproduction or copy, except to Congress and any committee thereof, governmental agencies, and in the presentation of any case or proceeding before any court or grand jury.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 1974c of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.