Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 42 : Section 1982
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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 1982 - Notes
SOURCE
(R.S. Sec. 1978.)
CODIFICATION
R.S. Sec. 1978 derived from act Apr. 9, 1866, ch. 31, Sec. 1, 14
Stat. 27.
Section was formerly classified to section 42 of Title 8, Aliens
and Nationality.
EX. ORD. NO. 11063. EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IN HOUSING
Ex. Ord. No. 11063, Nov. 20, 1962, 27 F.R. 11527, as amended by
Ex. Ord. No. 12259, Dec. 31, 1980, 46 F.R. 1253; Ex. Ord. No.
12892, Sec. 6-604, Jan. 17, 1994, 59 F.R. 2939, provided:
WHEREAS the granting of Federal assistance for the provision,
rehabilitation, or operation of housing and related facilities from
which Americans are excluded because of their race, color, creed,
or national origin is unfair, unjust, and inconsistent with the
public policy of the United States as manifested in its
Constitution and laws; and
WHEREAS the Congress in the Housing Act of 1949 [see Short Title
note set out under section 1441 of this title] has declared that
the general welfare and security of the Nation and the health and
living standards of its people require the realization as soon as
feasible of the goal of a decent home and a suitable living
environment for every American family; and
WHEREAS discriminatory policies and practices based upon race,
color, creed, or national origin now operate to deny many Americans
the benefits of housing financed through Federal assistance and as
a consequence prevent such assistance from providing them with an
alternative to substandard, unsafe, unsanitary, and overcrowded
housing; and
WHEREAS such discriminatory policies and practices result in
segregated patterns of housing and necessarily produce other forms
of discrimination and segregation which deprive many Americans of
equal opportunity in the exercise of their unalienable rights to
life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; and
WHEREAS the executive branch of the Government, in faithfully
executing the laws of the United States which authorize Federal
financial assistance, directly or indirectly, for the provision,
rehabilitation, and operation of housing and related facilities, is
charged with an obligation and duty to assure that those laws are
fairly administered and that benefits thereunder are made available
to all Americans without regard to their race, color, creed, or
national origin:
NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me as
President of the United States by the Constitution and laws of the
United States, it is ordered as follows:
SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS
This section is referred to in sections 1988, 3608 of this title.
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