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42 U.S.C. § 27 — Definitions
submitted 108 years ago by ch. 143 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 19 words · no verdicts yet
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In this chapter, the words "State" and "States" also mean the District of Columbia. This is the only rule this section sets.
This section is short and undivided. It sets one definition for this chapter of the law.
Wherever this chapter uses the word "State" or "States," that word also includes the District of Columbia. The section defines nothing else.
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The terms “State*” and “States,” as used in this chapter, shall be held to include the District of Columbia.
Source credit: (July 9, 1918, ch. 143, ch. XV, § 8, 40 Stat. 887.)
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- 1918Enacted · Act of July 9, 1918, ch. 143 · 40 Stat. 887
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