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Title 52 — Voting and Elections

Chapter 207 — Federal Election Records

§ 20705. Jurisdiction to compel production of records or papers

Statutory text

The United States district court for the district in which a demand is made pursuant to section 20703 of this title, or in which a record or paper so demanded is located, shall have jurisdiction by appropriate process to compel the production of such record or paper.

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. Civil Rights Act of 1960

    Pub. L. 86–449 title III § 305 · 74 Stat. 86

    Enacted · 52 U.S.C. § 20705

    (Pub. L. 86–449, title III, § 305, May 6, 1960, 74 Stat. 88.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 86–449, title III, § 305, May 6, 1960, 74 Stat. 88.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 305. The United States district court for the district in which a demand is made pursuant to section 303, or in which a record or paper so demanded is located, shall have jurisdiction by appropriate process to compel the production of such record or paper.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 1974d of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Credits

(Pub. L. 86–449, title III, § 305, , 74 Stat. 88.)

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