Files
republic-os/legal/us/code/title-25/chapter-26/section-2414.md
T
Fabio 76b8ec33a7 Legal corpus: the complete U.S. Code (59,740 sections, all 53 titles)
Ingested titles 12–51 and 54 from OLRC USLM XML @119-100 (the whole Code
now, uniform edition; Title 53 is reserved/empty). LegalText 11,221 ->
59,740; repo total 105,704 records. Deterministic (byte-identical rerun,
verified on Title 42's 8,356 sections); make check green. make
legal-us-code default now covers every title.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-06 10:51:44 -04:00

42 lines
1.5 KiB
Markdown
Raw Blame History

This file contains ambiguous Unicode characters
This file contains Unicode characters that might be confused with other characters. If you think that this is intentional, you can safely ignore this warning. Use the Escape button to reveal them.
---
type: "LegalText"
title: "25 U.S.C. § 2414"
description: "Congressional intent in construction of laws"
jurisdiction: "us"
corpus: "united_states_code"
kind: "code_section"
title_number: 25
title_name: "INDIANS"
chapter_number: "26"
chapter_name: "INDIAN ALCOHOL AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT"
section: "2414"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 2414"
status: "current"
release_point: "119-100"
release_date: "2026-06-26"
source: "official"
source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc25@119-100.zip"
source_identifier: "/us/usc/t25/s2414"
source_file: "data/legal/raw/us/code/title-25/usc25.xml"
source_hash: "88e1ebe73addad3c8f70f700d9505fd59387397d66a8124d9f956fc80422b009"
raw_snapshot_hash: "d4661d83bff6862be548ac8e843ba61e942ed983aade7cf83cb7dbc3dcd08168"
text_hash: "5bd9f390136858c9800ed5ddc61c5b88dc226a36b952485f18b3add781c9474e"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
confidence: "official"
tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
---
# 25 U.S.C. § 2414 - Congressional intent in construction of laws
## Text
It is the intent of Congress that—
(1) specific Federal laws, and administrative regulations promulgated thereunder, establishing programs of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Indian Health Service, and other Federal agencies, and
(2) general Federal laws, including laws limiting augmentation of Federal appropriations or encouraging joint or cooperative funding,
shall be liberally construed and administered to achieve the purposes of this chapter.
(Pub. L. 99570, title IV, § 4208, Oct. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 3207142.)