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[CITE: 42USC10502]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
        CHAPTER 111--EMERGENCY FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE
 
Sec. 10502. Definitions

    For purposes of this chapter--
        (1) the term ``Federal law enforcement assistance'' means funds, 
    equipment, training, intelligence information, and personnel,
        (2) the term ``Federal law enforcement community'' means the 
    heads of the following departments or agencies:
            (A) the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
            (B) the Drug Enforcement Administration,
            (C) the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice,
            (D) the Internal Revenue Service,
            (E) the Customs Service,
            (F) the Immigration and Naturalization Service,
            (G) the United States Marshals Service,
            (H) the National Park Service,
            (I) the United States Postal Service,
            (J) the Secret Service,
            (K) the Coast Guard,
            (L) the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, and
            (M) other Federal agencies with specific statutory authority 
        to investigate violations of Federal criminal laws,

        (3) the term ``law enforcement emergency'' means an uncommon 
    situation which requires law enforcement, which is or threatens to 
    become of serious or epidemic proportions, and with respect to which 
    State and local resources are inadequate to protect the lives and 
    property of citizens or to enforce the criminal law, except that 
    such term does not include--
            (A) the perceived need for planning or other activities 
        related to crowd control for general public safety projects, or
            (B) a situation requiring the enforcement of laws associated 
        with scheduled public events, including political conventions 
        and sports events, and

        (4) the term ``State'' means any State of the United States, the 
    District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin 
    Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific 
    Islands, or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

(Pub. L. 98-473, title II, Sec. 609N, Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 2104.)

                       References in Text

    This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original ``this 
subdivision'' probably meaning subtitle B (that probably should have 
been designated ``subdivision'' B) of division I of chapter VI of title 
II of Pub. L. 98-473, which enacted this chapter.

          Termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands

    For termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, see note 
set out preceding section 1681 of Title 48, Territories and Insular 
Possessions.
