Title 52 — Voting and Elections
Chapter 209 — Election Administration Improvement
§ 21141. “State” defined
Statutory text
In this chapter, the term “State” includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and the United States Virgin Islands.
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.
Help America Vote Act of 2002
Pub. L. 107–252 title IX § 901 · 116 Stat. 1666
Enacted · 52 U.S.C. § 21141
(Pub. L. 107–252, title IX, § 901, Oct. 29, 2002, 116 Stat. 1727.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 107–252, title IX, § 901, Oct. 29, 2002, 116 Stat. 1727.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 901. STATE DEFINED. In this Act, the term “State” includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and the United States Virgin Islands.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 107–252, , 116 Stat. 1666, known as the Help America Vote Act of 2002, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 15541 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.