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42 USC § 5196a - Mutual aid pacts between States and neighboring countries 

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identifier: "/us/usc/t42/s5196a"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "42 USC § 5196a - Mutual aid pacts between States and neighboring countries"
title_number: 42
title_name: "THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE"
section_number: "5196a"
section_name: "Mutual aid pacts between States and neighboring countries"
chapter_number: 68
chapter_name: "DISASTER RELIEF"
subchapter_number: "IV–B"
subchapter_name: "EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS"
part_number: "A"
part_name: "Powers and Duties"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 93–288, title VI, § 612, as added Pub. L. 103–337, div. C, title XXXIV, § 3411(a)(3), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 3105; amended Pub. L. 111–351, § 3(c)(2), Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3864.)"
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# § 5196a. Mutual aid pacts between States and neighboring countries

The Administrator shall give all practicable assistance to States in arranging, through the Department of State, mutual emergency preparedness aid between the States and neighboring countries.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 93–288, title VI, § 612, as added Pub. L. 103–337, div. C, title XXXIV, § 3411(a)(3), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 3105; amended Pub. L. 111–351, § 3(c)(2), Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3864.)

## Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 2283 of the former Appendix to Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to repeal by .

### Amendments

2011— substituted “Administrator” for “Director”.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Transfer of Functions

For transfer of all functions, personnel, assets, components, authorities, grant programs, and liabilities of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, including the functions of the Under Secretary for Federal Emergency Management relating thereto, to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, see , Domestic Security.

For transfer of functions, personnel, assets, and liabilities of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, including the functions of the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency relating thereto, to the Secretary of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see former section 313(1) and sections 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 .