2015 US Code
Title 50 - War and National Defense (Sections 1 - 4705)
Chapter 52 - Restitution for World War II Internment of Japanese-Americans and Aleuts (Sections 4201 - 4251)
Subchapter I - United States Citizens of Japanese Ancestry and Resident Japanese Aliens (Sections 4211 - 4220)
Sec. 4217 - Documents relating to the internment
Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 3, Title 50 - WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE |
Category | Bills and Statutes |
Collection | United States Code |
SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
Contained Within | Title 50 - WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE CHAPTER 52 - RESTITUTION FOR WORLD WAR II INTERNMENT OF JAPANESE-AMERICANS AND ALEUTS SUBCHAPTER I - UNITED STATES CITIZENS OF JAPANESE ANCESTRY AND RESIDENT JAPANESE ALIENS Sec. 4217 - Documents relating to the internment |
Contains | section 4217 |
Date | 2015 |
Laws In Effect As Of Date | January 3, 2016 |
Positive Law | No |
Disposition | standard |
Source Credit | Pub. L. 100-383, title I, §107, Aug. 10, 1988, 102 Stat. 909. |
Statutes at Large Reference | 102 Stat. 909 |
Public and Private Law | Public Law 100-383 |
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All documents, personal testimony, and other records created or received by the Commission during its inquiry shall be kept and maintained by the Archivist of the United States who shall preserve such documents, testimony, and records in the National Archives of the United States. The Archivist shall make such documents, testimony, and records available to the public for research purposes.
(b) Public availability of certain records of the House of Representatives(1) The Clerk of the House of Representatives is authorized to permit the Archivist of the United States to make available for use records of the House not classified for national security purposes, which have been in existence for not less than thirty years, relating to the evacuation, relocation, and internment of individuals during the evacuation, relocation, and internment period.
(2) This subsection is enacted as an exercise of the rulemaking power of the House of Representatives, but is applicable only with respect to the availability of records to which it applies, and supersedes other rules only to the extent that the time limitation established by this section with respect to such records is specifically inconsistent with such rules, and is enacted with full recognition of the constitutional right of the House to change its rules at any time, in the same manner and to the same extent as in the case of any other rule of the House.
(Pub. L. 100–383, title I, §107, Aug. 10, 1988, 102 Stat. 909.)
CODIFICATIONSection was formerly classified to section 1989b–6 of the former Appendix to this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.
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