 
          CHAPTER 37--ASSIGNMENT OR TRANSPORTATION OF STUDENTS
 
Sec. 1656. Prohibition against official or court orders to 
        achieve racial balance or insure compliance with constitutional 
        standards applicable to entire United States
        
    The proviso of section 407(a) of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 [42 
U.S.C. 2000c-6(a)] providing in substance that no court or official of 
the United States shall be empowered to issue any order seeking to 
achieve a racial balance in any school by requiring the transportation 
of pupils or students from one school to another or one school district 
to another in order to achieve such racial balance, or otherwise enlarge 
the existing power of the court to insure compliance with constitutional 
standards shall apply to all public school pupils and to every public 
school system, public school and public school board, as defined by 
title IV [42 U.S.C. 2000c et seq.], under all circumstances and 
conditions and at all times in every State, district, territory, 
Commonwealth, or possession of the United States regardless of whether 
the residence of such public school pupils or the principal offices of 
such public school system, public school or public school board is 
situated in the northern, eastern, western, or southern part of the 
United States.

(Pub. L. 92-318, title VIII, Sec. 806, June 23, 1972, 86 Stat. 373.)

                       References in Text

    The Civil Rights Act of 1964, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 88-
352, July 2, 1964, 78 Stat. 241, as amended. Title IV of the Civil 
Rights Act of 1964 is classified generally to subchapter IV (Sec. 2000c 
et seq.) of chapter 21 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. For 
complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note 
set out under section 2000a of Title 42 and Tables.
