2013 US Code
Title 6 - Domestic Security
Chapter 1 - HOMELAND SECURITY ORGANIZATION (§§ 101 - 613)
Subchapter II - INFORMATION ANALYSIS AND INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION (§§ 121 - 165)
Part A - Information and Analysis and Infrastructure Protection; Access to Information (§§ 121 - 124m)
Section 124 - Homeland Security Advisory System
Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 1, Title 6 - DOMESTIC SECURITY |
Category | Bills and Statutes |
Collection | United States Code |
SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
Contained Within | Title 6 - DOMESTIC SECURITY CHAPTER 1 - HOMELAND SECURITY ORGANIZATION SUBCHAPTER II - INFORMATION ANALYSIS AND INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION Part A - Information and Analysis and Infrastructure Protection; Access to Information Sec. 124 - Homeland Security Advisory System |
Contains | section 124 |
Date | 2013 |
Laws in Effect as of Date | January 16, 2014 |
Positive Law | No |
Disposition | standard |
Source Credit | Pub. L. 107-296, title II, §203, as added Pub. L. 110-53, title V, §501(a)(1), Aug. 3, 2007, 121 Stat. 306. |
Statutes at Large Reference | 121 Stat. 306 |
Public Law References | Public Law 107-296, Public Law 110-53 |
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The Secretary shall administer the Homeland Security Advisory System in accordance with this section to provide advisories or warnings regarding the threat or risk that acts of terrorism will be committed on the homeland to Federal, State, local, and tribal government authorities and to the people of the United States, as appropriate. The Secretary shall exercise primary responsibility for providing such advisories or warnings.
(b) Required elementsIn administering the Homeland Security Advisory System, the Secretary shall—
(1) establish criteria for the issuance and revocation of such advisories or warnings;
(2) develop a methodology, relying on the criteria established under paragraph (1), for the issuance and revocation of such advisories or warnings;
(3) provide, in each such advisory or warning, specific information and advice regarding appropriate protective measures and countermeasures that may be taken in response to the threat or risk, at the maximum level of detail practicable to enable individuals, government entities, emergency response providers, and the private sector to act appropriately;
(4) whenever possible, limit the scope of each such advisory or warning to a specific region, locality, or economic sector believed to be under threat or at risk; and
(5) not, in issuing any advisory or warning, use color designations as the exclusive means of specifying homeland security threat conditions that are the subject of the advisory or warning.
(Pub. L. 107–296, title II, §203, as added Pub. L. 110–53, title V, §501(a)(1), Aug. 3, 2007, 121 Stat. 306.)
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