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Title 6, Domestic SecurityRelease 119-110

§321n Acceptance of Gifts

Title 6 › CHAPTER 1 — HOMELAND SECURITY ORGANIZATION › SUBCHAPTER V — NATIONAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT › § 321n

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary can accept gifts of property or services for the Center for Domestic Preparedness to help prevent, prepare for, protect against, or respond to natural disasters, terrorism, or other man-made disasters, including weapons of mass destruction. The Secretary must not accept a gift if using it would harm, or look like it harms, the honesty or reputation of a Department program or a person in the Department. Each year the Secretary must send a public report to the House Committee on Homeland Security and the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs listing gifts taken, how they helped the Center’s mission, and the federal savings from them.

Full Legal Text

Title 6, §321n

Domestic Security, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Authority
The Secretary may accept and use gifts of property, both real and personal, and may accept gifts of services, including from guest lecturers, for otherwise authorized activities of the Center for Domestic Preparedness that are related to efforts to prevent, prepare for, protect against, or respond to a natural disaster, act of terrorism, or other man-made disaster, including the use of a weapon of mass destruction.
(b)Prohibition
The Secretary may not accept a gift under this section if the Secretary determines that the use of the property or services would compromise the integrity or appearance of integrity of— (1)
(2)an individual involved in a program of the Department.
(c)Report
(1)In general
The Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate an annual report disclosing—
(A)any gifts that were accepted under this section during the year covered by the report;
(B)how the gifts contribute to the mission of the Center for Domestic Preparedness; and
(C)the amount of Federal savings that were generated from the acceptance of the gifts.
(2)Publication
Each report required under paragraph (1) shall be made publically available.

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Citation

6 U.S.C. § 321n

Title 6, Domestic Security

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110