---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 5778"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "5778"
heading: "Repealed. Pub. L. 104–235, title II, § 231(b), Oct. 3, 1996, 110 Stat. 3092"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/5778"
units:
  - "Chapter 72 — Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention"
  - "Subchapter IV — Missing Children"
---

# [§5778. Repealed. Pub. L. 104–235, title II, § 231(b), Oct. 3, 1996, 110 Stat. 3092 — repealed]



## Notes

Section, Pub. L. 93–415, title IV, § 409, formerly § 408, as added Pub. L. 100–690, title VII, § 7291, Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4461; renumbered § 409, Pub. L. 103–322, title XVII, § 170303(1), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2043, related to special study and report to determine obstacles that prevent or impede individuals who have legal custody of children from recovering children from parents who have removed children from such individuals in violation of law.