---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 9850"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "9850"
heading: "Limitation with respect to certain unlawful activities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/9850"
units:
  - "Chapter 105 — Community Services Programs"
  - "Subchapter II — Head Start Programs"
---

# §9850. Limitation with respect to certain unlawful activities


No individual employed or assigned by or in any Head Start [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) or other [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) assisted under this subchapter shall, pursuant to or during the performance of services rendered in connection with any program or activity conducted or assisted under this subchapter by such Head Start [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) or such other [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1), plan, initiate, participate in, or otherwise aid or assist in the conduct of any unlawful demonstration, rioting, or civil disturbance.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–35, title VI, § 655, Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 507; Pub. L. 110–134, § 23, Dec. 12, 2007, 121 Stat. 1443.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2007—Pub. L. 110–134 inserted “or in” after “assigned by”.