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Title 6 — Domestic Security

Part H · Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization

§ 465. Joint Interagency Task Force

Statutory text

(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.

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. 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.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 107–296, title VIII, § 885, , 116 Stat. 2247.)

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