Title 6 — Domestic Security
Part H · Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization
§ 465. Joint Interagency Task Force
Statutory text
Establishment
The Secretary may establish and operate a permanent Joint Interagency Homeland Security Task Force composed of representatives from military and civilian agencies of the United States Government for the purposes of anticipating terrorist threats against the United States and taking appropriate actions to prevent harm to the United States.
Structure
It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary should model the Joint Interagency Homeland Security Task Force on the approach taken by the Joint Interagency Task Forces for drug interdiction at Key West, Florida and Alameda, California, to the maximum extent feasible and appropriate.
Legislative history
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Homeland Security Act of 2002
Pub. L. 107–296 title VIII § 885 · 116 Stat. 2135
Enacted · 6 U.S.C. § 465
(Pub. L. 107–296, title VIII, § 885, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2247.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 107–296, title VIII, § 885, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2247.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 885. JOINT INTERAGENCY TASK FORCE. (a) Establishment.— The Secretary may establish and operate a permanent Joint Interagency Homeland Security Task Force composed of representatives from military and civilian agencies of the United States Government for the purposes of anticipating terrorist threats against the United States and taking appropriate actions to prevent harm to the United States. (b) Structure.— It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary should model the Joint Interagency Homeland Security Task Force on the approach taken by the Joint Interagency Task Forces for drug interdiction at Key West, Florida and Alameda, California, to the maximum extent feasible and appropriate.
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