For purposes of this chapter, “State” includes the District of Columbia and the territories and possessions of the United States.
Pub. L. 105–354, § 1(4)(A)112 Stat. 3239(Added , , .)
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20201 | 36 App.:5815. | Nov. 18, 1997, Pub. L. 105–85, title XV, § 1516, 111 Stat. 1966. |
The words “the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands” are omitted as included in “the territories and possessions of the United States”.