---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 5123"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "5123"
heading: "References"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/5123"
units:
  - "Chapter 68 — Disaster Relief"
  - "Subchapter I — Findings, Declarations, and Definitions"
---

# §5123. References


Except as otherwise specifically provided, any reference in this chapter to “[State](/usc/42/5122.md?p=4) and local”, “[State](/usc/42/5122.md?p=4) or local”, “[State](/usc/42/5122.md?p=4), and local”, “[State](/usc/42/5122.md?p=4), or local”, or “[State](/usc/42/5122.md?p=4), local” (including plurals) with respect to governments or officials and any reference to a “[local government](/usc/42/5122.md?p=8)” in sections [5172(d)(3)](/usc/42/5172.md?p=d-3) and [5184](/usc/42/5184.md) of this title is deemed to refer also to [Indian tribal governments](/usc/42/5122.md?p=6) and officials, as appropriate.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–288, title I, § 103, as added Pub. L. 113–2, div. B, § 1110(d), Jan. 29, 2013, 127 Stat. 49.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 93–288, May 22, 1974, 88 Stat. 143. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 5121 of this title and Tables.