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Title 6 — Domestic Security

Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization

§ 590. Definitions

Statutory text

In this subchapter:

(1)

Assistant Secretary

The term “Assistant Secretary” means the Assistant Secretary for the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office.

(2)

Intelligence community

The term “intelligence community” has the meaning given such term in section 3003(4) of title 50.

(3)

Office

The term “Office” means the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office established under section 591(a) of this title.

(4)

Weapon of mass destruction

The term “weapon of mass destruction” has the meaning given the term in section 1801 of title 50.

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 XIX § 1900 · 116 Stat. 2135

    Enacted · 6 U.S.C. § 590

    (Pub. L. 107–296, title XIX, § 1900, as added Pub. L. 115–387, § 2(a)(2), Dec. 21, 2018, 132 Stat. 5162.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 107–296, title XIX, § 1900, as added Pub. L. 115–387, § 2(a)(2), Dec. 21, 2018, 132 Stat. 5162.)

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Credits

(Pub. L. 107–296, title XIX, § 1900, as added Pub. L. 115–387, § 2(a)(2), , 132 Stat. 5162.)

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