---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 3891"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "3891"
heading: "Omitted"
status: "omitted"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/3891"
units:
  - "Chapter 47 — Juvenile Delinquency Prevention and Control"
  - "Subchapter IV — Administration"
---

# [§3891. Omitted — omitted]



## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Appropriations for this subchapter have not been authorized for fiscal years after 1975.

Section 3890, Pub. L. 90–445, title IV, § 410, as added Pub. L. 92–381, § 1, Aug. 14, 1972, 86 Stat. 538, prohibited application of this chapter in such a way as to be detrimental to parental and individual rights.

A prior section 3890, Pub. L. 90–445, title IV, § 410, July 31, 1968, 82 Stat. 473, related to definitions, prior to the general amendment of Pub. L. 90–445 by section 1 of Pub. L. 92–381.

Section 3891, Pub. L. 90–445, title IV, § 411, as added Pub. L. 92–381, § 1, Aug. 14, 1972, 86 Stat. 538; amended Pub. L. 93–644, § 9(a), Jan. 4, 1975, 88 Stat. 805, provided definitions for purposes of this chapter.

Provisions similar to those comprising this section were contained in prior section 3890, Pub. L. 90–445, title IV, § 410, July 31, 1968, 82 Stat. 473, prior to the general amendment of Pub. L. 90–445 by section 1 of Pub. L. 92–381.