42 U.S.C. § 8303 — Territorial application

submitted 48 years ago by Pub. L. 95-620 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 18 words · no verdicts yet

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This law limits where the rest of this chapter applies. The rules only cover the 48 connected states and Washington, D.C. They do not apply anywhere else, such as Alaska, Hawaii, or U.S. territories.

This is a short but important rule. It says the rest of this chapter's provisions only apply in one place: the contiguous 48 states (the states that connect to each other, not counting Alaska or Hawaii) and the District of Columbia. That means this chapter does not apply in Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, or any other U.S. territory. If a rule elsewhere in this chapter would otherwise reach those places, this section stops it.

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The provisions of this chapter shall only apply within the contiguous 48 States and the District of Columbia.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 95–620, title I, § 104, Nov. 9, 1978, 92 Stat. 3298; Pub. L. 100–42, § 1(c)(3), May 21, 1987, 101 Stat. 311.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1978Enacted · Pub. L. 95-620 · 92 Stat. 3298
1987Amended · Pub. L. 100-42 · 101 Stat. 311

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 95-620 on 1978-11-09.

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