# § 50102. Definitions
For purposes of this chapter—
**(1)** the term “Federal law enforcement assistance” means funds, equipment, training, intelligence information, and personnel,
**(2)** the term “Federal law enforcement community” means the heads of the following departments or agencies:
**(A)** the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
**(B)** the Drug Enforcement Administration,
**(C)** the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice,
**(D)** the Internal Revenue Service,
**(E)** the Customs Service,
**(F)** the Immigration and Naturalization Service,
**(G)** the United States Marshals Service,
**(H)** the National Park Service,
**(I)** the United States Postal Service,
**(J)** the Secret Service,
**(K)** the Coast Guard,
**(L)** the National Security Division of the Department of Justice,
**(M)** the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, Department of Justice, and
**(N)** other Federal agencies with specific statutory authority to investigate violations of Federal criminal laws,
**(3)** the term “law enforcement emergency” means an uncommon situation which requires law enforcement, which is or threatens to become of serious or epidemic proportions, and with respect to which State and local resources are inadequate to protect the lives and property of citizens or to enforce the criminal law, except that such term does not include—
**(A)** the perceived need for planning or other activities related to crowd control for general public safety projects, or
**(B)** a situation requiring the enforcement of laws associated with scheduled public events, including political conventions and sports events, and
**(4)** the term “State” means any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 609N, Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 2104; Pub. L. 107–296, title XI, § 1112(*o*), Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2278; Pub. L. 109–177, title V, § 506(a)(11), Mar. 9, 2006, 120 Stat. 248.)
## Editorial Notes
### References in Text
This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this subdivision” probably meaning subtitle B (which probably should have been designated “subdivision” B) of division I of chapter VI of title II of , which enacted this chapter.
### Codification
Section was formerly classified to , The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.
### Amendments
2006—Par. (2)(L) to (N). added subpar. (L) and redesignated former subpars. (L) and (M) as (M) and (N), respectively.
2002—Par. (2)(L). substituted “Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, Department of Justice” for “Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms”.
## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
### Effective Date of 2002 Amendment
Amendment by effective 60 days after , see , set out as an Effective Date note under , Domestic Security.
### Transfer of Functions
For transfer of functions, personnel, assets, and liabilities of the United States Customs Service of the Department of the Treasury, including functions of the Secretary of the Treasury relating thereto, to the Secretary of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see sections 203(1), 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of , as modified, set out as a note under . For establishment of U.S. Customs and Border Protection in the Department of Homeland Security, treated as if included in as of , see , as amended generally by , and , set out as a note under .
For transfer of the functions, personnel, assets, and obligations of the United States Secret Service, including the functions of the Secretary of the Treasury relating thereto, to the Secretary of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see sections 381, 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of , as modified, set out as a note under .
For transfer of authorities, functions, personnel, and assets of the Coast Guard, including the authorities and functions of the Secretary of Transportation relating thereto, to the Department of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see sections 468(b), 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of , as modified, set out as a note under .
### Abolition of Immigration and Naturalization Service and Transfer of Functions
For abolition of Immigration and Naturalization Service, transfer of functions, and treatment of related references, see note set out under , Aliens and Nationality.
## Executive Documents
### Termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
For termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, see note set out preceding , Territories and Insular Possessions.