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Title 52 — Voting and Elections

Part A · Chapter 209 — Election Administration Improvement

§ 20929. Limitation on rulemaking authority

Statutory text

The Commission shall not have any authority to issue any rule, promulgate any regulation, or take any other action which imposes any requirement on any State or unit of local government, except to the extent permitted under section 20508(a) of this title.

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. Help America Vote Act of 2002

    Pub. L. 107–252 title II § 209 · 116 Stat. 1666

    Enacted · 52 U.S.C. § 20929

    (Pub. L. 107–252, title II, § 209, Oct. 29, 2002, 116 Stat. 1678.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 107–252, title II, § 209, Oct. 29, 2002, 116 Stat. 1678.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 209. LIMITATION ON RULEMAKING AUTHORITY. The Commission shall not have any authority to issue any rule, promulgate any regulation, or take any other action which imposes any requirement on any State or unit of local government, except to the extent permitted under section 9(a) of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (42 U.S.C. 1973gg-7(a)).

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 15329 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Credits

(Pub. L. 107–252, title II, § 209, , 116 Stat. 1678.)

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