2013 US Code
Title 6 - Domestic Security
Chapter 1 - HOMELAND SECURITY ORGANIZATION (§§ 101 - 613)
Subchapter IV - DIRECTORATE OF BORDER AND TRANSPORTATION SECURITY (§§ 201 - 298)
Part F - General Immigration Provisions (§§ 291 - 298)
Section 291 - Abolishment of INS

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Publication TitleUnited States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 1, Title 6 - DOMESTIC SECURITY
CategoryBills and Statutes
CollectionUnited States Code
SuDoc Class NumberY 1.2/5:
Contained WithinTitle 6 - DOMESTIC SECURITY
CHAPTER 1 - HOMELAND SECURITY ORGANIZATION
SUBCHAPTER IV - DIRECTORATE OF BORDER AND TRANSPORTATION SECURITY
Part F - General Immigration Provisions
Sec. 291 - Abolishment of INS
Containssection 291
Date2013
Laws in Effect as of DateJanuary 16, 2014
Positive LawNo
Dispositionstandard
Source CreditPub. L. 107-296, title IV, §471, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2205.
Statutes at Large References116 Stat. 2205, 2135
Public Law ReferencesPublic Law 107-296

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Abolishment of INS - 6 U.S.C. § 291 (2013)
§291. Abolishment of INS (a) In general

Upon completion of all transfers from the Immigration and Naturalization Service as provided for by this chapter, the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Department of Justice is abolished.

(b) Prohibition

The authority provided by section 542 of this title may be used to reorganize functions or organizational units within the Bureau of Border Security or the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, but may not be used to recombine the two bureaus into a single agency or otherwise to combine, join, or consolidate functions or organizational units of the two bureaus with each other.

(Pub. L. 107–296, title IV, §471, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2205.)

REFERENCES IN TEXT

This chapter, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 107–296, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2135, known as the Homeland Security Act of 2002, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 101 of this title and Tables.

CHANGE OF NAME

Bureau of Border Security, referred to in subsec. (b), changed to Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement by Reorganization Plan Modification for the Department of Homeland Security, eff. Mar. 1, 2003, H. Doc. No. 108–32, 108th Congress, 1st Session, set out as a note under section 542 of this title.

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