50 U.S.C. § 4217 — Documents relating to the internment
submitted 38 years ago by Pub. L. 100-383 to r/title-50-WAR-AND-NATIONAL-DEFENSE · 237 words · no verdicts yet
The Archivist must preserve Commission records in the National Archives and make them available for research. Certain unclassified House records at least 30 years old may also be made available under the section’s rulemaking terms.
(a) The Archivist of the United States must keep and preserve in the National Archives all documents, testimony, and records the Commission* created or received during its inquiry. The Archivist must make them available to the public for research.
(b)(1) The House Clerk may allow the Archivist to make available unclassified House records at least 30 years old concerning evacuation, relocation, and internment during the relevant period. (2) This subsection is an exercise of the House’s rulemaking power. It applies only to the covered records and overrides other rules only when this section’s time limit is specifically inconsistent with them. It recognizes the House’s constitutional power to change its rules at any time and in the same way as any other House rule.
All documents, personal testimony, and other records created or received by the Commission* during its inquiry shall be kept and maintained by the Archivist of the United States who shall preserve such documents, testimony, and records in the National Archives of the United States. The Archivist shall make such documents, testimony, and records available to the public for research purposes.
The Clerk of the House of Representatives is authorized to permit the Archivist of the United States to make available for use records of the House not classified for national security purposes, which have been in existence for not less than thirty years, relating to the evacuation, relocation, and internment of individuals during the evacuation, relocation, and internment period*.
This subsection is enacted as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the House of Representatives, but is applicable only with respect to the availability of records to which it applies, and supersedes other rules only to the extent that the time limitation established by this section with respect to such records is specifically inconsistent with such rules, and is enacted with full recognition of the constitutional right of the House to change its rules at any time, in the same manner and to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of the House.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 100–383, title I, § 107, Aug. 10, 1988, 102 Stat. 909.)
- 1988Enacted · Pub. L. 100-383 · 102 Stat. 909
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