15 U.S.C. § 2202 — Declaration of purpose
submitted 52 years ago by Pub. L. 93-498 to r/title-15-COMMERCE-AND-TRADE · 96 words · no verdicts yet
Congress states four purposes for this chapter. They concern fire prevention, fire programs, the United States Fire Administration and Fire Research Center, and burn-injury research and rehabilitation.
Congress declares that this chapter is intended to (1) reduce the Nation’s fire losses through better fire prevention and control; (2) supplement existing research, training, and education programs and encourage new or improved programs and activities by State and local governments; (3) establish the United States Fire Administration* and the Fire Research Center in the Department of Commerce; and (4) establish a stronger National Institutes of Health research program on treating burn and smoke injuries and rehabilitating fire victims.
It is declared to be the purpose of Congress in this chapter to—
reduce the Nation’s losses caused by fire through better fire prevention and control;
supplement existing programs of research, training, and education, and to encourage new and improved programs and activities by State and local governments;
establish the United States Fire Administration* and the Fire Research Center within the Department of Commerce; and
establish an intensified program of research into the treatment of burn and smoke injuries and the rehabilitation of victims of fires within the National Institutes of Health.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 93–498, § 3, Oct. 29, 1974, 88 Stat. 1536; Pub. L. 95–422, § 2(a)(1), Oct. 5, 1978, 92 Stat. 932.)
- 1974Enacted · Pub. L. 93-498 · 88 Stat. 1536
- 1978Amended · Pub. L. 95-422 · 92 Stat. 932
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