U.S. Code as of: 01/22/02
Section 1621 - Notes
SOURCE.
(Pub. L. 94-412, title II, Sec. 201, Sept. 14, 1976, 90 Stat.
1255.) PROC. NO. 7463
. DECLARATION OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY BY REASON OF CERTAIN TERRORIST ATTACKS.Proc. No. 7463, Sept. 14, 2001, 66 F.R. 48199, provided:
A national emergency exists by reason of the terrorist attacks at
the World Trade Center, New York, New York, and the Pentagon, and
the continuing and immediate threat of further attacks on the
United States.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States
of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me as President by
the Constitution and the laws of the United States, I hereby
declare that the national emergency has existed since September 11,
2001, and, pursuant to the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601
et seq.), I intend to utilize the following statutes: sections 123,
123a, 527, 2201(c), 12006, and 12302 of title 10, United States
Code, and sections 331, 359, and 367 of title 14, United States
Code.
This proclamation immediately shall be published in the Federal
Register or disseminated through the Emergency Federal Register,
and transmitted to the Congress.
This proclamation is not intended to create any right or benefit,
substantive or procedural, enforceable at law by a party against
the United States, its agencies, its officers, or any person.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this fourteenth
day of September, in the year of our Lord two thousand one, and of
the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred
and twenty-sixth. George W. Bush.