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6 U.S.C. § 321nAcceptance of gifts

submitted 16 years ago by Pub. L. 107-296 to r/title-6-DOMESTIC-SECURITY · 213 words · no verdicts yet

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The Secretary of Homeland Security can accept gifts of property or services for the Center for Domestic Preparedness. The Secretary cannot accept a gift if it would make a Department program or person look corrupt. Each year, the Secretary must publicly report every gift accepted and the savings it created.

(a) Authority. The Secretary may accept and use gifts — of real property, personal property, or services, including services from guest lecturers — for activities of the Center for Domestic Preparedness. The gifts must be for activities that are otherwise allowed and that relate to preventing, preparing for, protecting against, or responding to a natural disaster, an act of terrorism, or another man-made disaster, including one involving a weapon of mass destruction. (b) Prohibition. The Secretary cannot accept a gift if the Secretary decides that using the property or service would make it look like — or actually make — a Department program or a person in a Department program dishonest or compromised. (c) Report. (1) In general. Each year, the Secretary must send a report to the House Committee on Homeland Security and the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. The report must list every gift accepted that year, explain how each gift helped the Center for Domestic Preparedness do its job, and state how much money the government saved by accepting the gifts. (2) Publication. Each of these reports must be made available to the public.
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(a) Authority

The Secretary may accept and use gifts of property, both real and personal, and may accept gifts of services, including from guest lecturers, for otherwise authorized activities of the Center for Domestic Preparedness that are related to efforts to prevent, prepare for, protect against, or respond to a natural disaster, act of terrorism, or other man-made disaster, including the use of a weapon of mass destruction.

(b) Prohibition

The Secretary may not accept a gift under this section if the Secretary determines that the use of the property or services would compromise the integrity or appearance of integrity of—

(1)

a program of the Department; or

(2)

an individual involved in a program of the Department.

(c) Report
(1) In general

The Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate an annual report disclosing—

(A)

any gifts that were accepted under this section during the year covered by the report;

(B)

how the gifts contribute to the mission of the Center for Domestic Preparedness; and

(C)

the amount of Federal savings that were generated from the acceptance of the gifts.

(2) Publication

Each report required under paragraph (1) shall be made publically available.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 107–296, title V, § 525, as added Pub. L. 111–245, § 2(a)(1), Sept. 30, 2010, 124 Stat. 2620.)

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  • 2010Enacted · Pub. L. 107-296 · 124 Stat. 2620

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