---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 5141"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "5141"
heading: "Waiver of administrative conditions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/5141"
units:
  - "Chapter 68 — Disaster Relief"
  - "Subchapter III — Major Disaster and Emergency Assistance Administration"
---

# §5141. Waiver of administrative conditions


Any [Federal agency](/usc/42/5122.md?p=9) charged with the administration of a Federal assistance program may, if so requested by the applicant [State](/usc/42/5122.md?p=4) or local authorities, modify or waive, for a [major disaster](/usc/42/5122.md?p=2), such administrative conditions for assistance as would otherwise prevent the giving of assistance under such programs if the inability to meet such conditions is a result of the [major disaster](/usc/42/5122.md?p=2).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–288, title III, § 301, as added Pub. L. 100–707, title I, § 105(a)(2), Nov. 23, 1988, 102 Stat. 4691.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 5141, Pub. L. 93–288, title III, § 301, May 22, 1974, 88 Stat. 146, set out procedure for determination of existence of emergency or major disaster, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 100–707, § 105(a)(2).