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[CITE: 42USC10708]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                  CHAPTER 113--STATE JUSTICE INSTITUTE
 
Sec. 10708. Administrative provisions

    (a) The Institute shall prescribe procedures to ensure that 
financial assistance under this chapter shall not be suspended unless 
the grantee, contractor, person, or entity receiving financial 
assistance under this chapter has been given reasonable notice and 
opportunity to show cause why such actions should not be taken.
    (b) Except as provided by Federal law other than this chapter, no 
officer or employee of the Institute, and no recipient of assistance 
under this chapter, may use or reveal any research or statistical 
information furnished under this chapter by any person and identifiable 
to any specific private person for any purpose other than the purpose 
for which the information was obtained in accordance with this chapter. 
Such information and copies thereof shall be immune from legal process, 
and shall not, without the consent of the person furnishing such 
information, be admitted as evidence or used for any purpose in any 
action, suit, or other judicial, legislative, or administrative 
proceedings.

(Pub. L. 98-620, title II, Sec. 209, Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3344; Pub. 
L. 100-702, title VI, Sec. 606, Nov. 19, 1988, 102 Stat. 4653.)


                               Amendments

    1988--Pub. L. 100-702 substituted ``Administrative provisions'' for 
``Special procedures'' in section catchline, and amended text generally, 
changing structure of section from a single unlettered paragraph to one 
consisting of subsecs. (a) and (b).
