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Title 15, Commerce and TradeRelease 119-110

§2224 Listings of Places of Public Accommodation

Title 15 › CHAPTER 49 — FIRE PREVENTION AND CONTROL › § 2224

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Each State must, within 2 years after September 25, 1990, send FEMA a list (through the Governor or someone the Governor picks) of the public places in the State that affect commerce and meet the rules in section 2225. FEMA must make the rules for how States send those lists and must require States to update their lists from time to time. Within 60 days after that 2‑year period ends, FEMA must make a single national master list from the State lists, publish it in the Federal Register, give it to every federal agency, and tell agency employees about it. FEMA must also update and resend the master list when State lists change. “Agency” has the meaning given in 5 U.S.C. 5701(1).

Full Legal Text

Title 15, §2224

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(a)Submissions by States
(1)Not later than 2 years after September 25, 1990, each State (acting through its Governor or the Governor’s designee) shall, under procedures formulated by the Administrator of FEMA, submit to the Administrator of FEMA a list of those places of public accommodation affecting commerce located in the State which meet the requirements of the guidelines described in section 2225 of this title.
(2)The Administrator of FEMA shall formulate procedures under which each State (acting through its Governor or the Governor’s designee) shall periodically update the list submitted pursuant to paragraph (1).
(b)Compilation and distribution of master list
(1)Not later than 60 days after the expiration of the 2-year period referred to in subsection (a), the Administrator of FEMA shall compile and publish in the Federal Register a national master list of all of the places of public accommodation affecting commerce located in each State that meet the requirements of the guidelines described in section 2225 of this title, and shall distribute such list to each agency of the Federal Government and take steps to make the employees of such agencies aware of its existence and contents.
(2)The Administrator of FEMA shall periodically update the national master list compiled pursuant to paragraph (1) to reflect changes in the State lists submitted to the Administrator of FEMA pursuant to subsection (a), and shall periodically redistribute the updated master list to each agency of the Federal Government.
(3)For purposes of this subsection, the term “agency” has the meaning given to it under section 5701(1) of title 5.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

Pub. L. 112–239 substituted “Administrator of FEMA” for “Director” wherever appearing. 1992—Pub. L. 102–522, § 104(1), struck out “certified” before “places” in section catchline. Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 102–522, § 104(2), inserted “(acting through its Governor or the Governor’s designee)” after “each State” in pars. (1) and (2) and struck out “the Governor of the State or his designee certifies” after “in the State which” in par. (1).

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 section 315(a)(1) of Title 6, 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 section 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of November 25, 2002, as modified, set out as a note under section 542 of Title 6.

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Citation

15 U.S.C. § 2224

Title 15, Commerce and Trade

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110