§ 5201 Rules and regulations
§ 5203 Excess disaster assistance payments as budgetary emergency requirements
§ 5204 Insular areas disaster survival and recovery; definitions
§ 5204a Authorization of appropriations for insular areas
§ 5204b Technical assistance for insular areas
§ 5204c Hazard mitigation for insular areas
§ 5205 Disaster grant closeout procedures
§ 5205a Certain recoupment prohibited
§ 5206 Buy American
§ 5207 Firearms policies

Terms Used In U.S. Code > Title 42 > Chapter 68 > Subchapter V - Miscellaneous

  • Chief Executive: means the person who is the Chief, Chairman, Governor, President, or similar executive official of an Indian tribal government. See 42 USC 5122
  • Emergency: means any occasion or instance for which, in the determination of the President, Federal assistance is needed to supplement State and local efforts and capabilities to save lives and to protect property and public health and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in any part of the United States. See 42 USC 5122
  • Federal agency: means any department, independent establishment, Government corporation, or other agency of the executive branch of the Federal Government, including the United States Postal Service, but shall not include the American National Red Cross. See 42 USC 5122
  • individual: shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. See 1 USC 8
  • local government: means &mdash. See 42 USC 5122
  • Major disaster: means any natural catastrophe (including any hurricane, tornado, storm, high water, winddriven water, tidal wave, tsunami, earthquake, volcanic eruption, landslide, mudslide, snowstorm, or drought), or, regardless of cause, any fire, flood, or explosion, in any part of the United States, which in the determination of the President causes damage of sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant major disaster assistance under this chapter to supplement the efforts and available resources of States, local governments, and disaster relief organizations in alleviating the damage, loss, hardship, or suffering caused thereby. See 42 USC 5122
  • officer: includes any person authorized by law to perform the duties of the office. See 1 USC 1
  • State: means any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. See 42 USC 5122
  • United States: means the fifty States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. See 42 USC 5122