---
kind: "unit"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
key: "ch21/schIX"
level: "subchapter"
label: "Subchapter IX"
heading: "Miscellaneous Provisions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/ch21-schIX"
sections_count: 7
---

# Subchapter IX — Miscellaneous Provisions

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare › Chapter 21 — Civil Rights

## Sections

- [§2000h. Criminal contempt proceedings: trial by jury, criminal practice, penalties, exceptions, intent; civil contempt proceedings](/usc/42/2000h.md)
- [§2000h–1. Double jeopardy; specific crimes and criminal contempts](/usc/42/2000h-1.md)
- [§2000h–2. Intervention by Attorney General; denial of equal protection on account of race, color, religion, sex or national origin](/usc/42/2000h-2.md)
- [§2000h–3. Construction of provisions not to affect authority of Attorney General, etc., to institute or intervene in actions or proceedings](/usc/42/2000h-3.md)
- [§2000h–4. Construction of provisions not to exclude operation of State laws and not to invalidate consistent State laws](/usc/42/2000h-4.md)
- [§2000h–5. Authorization of appropriations](/usc/42/2000h-5.md)
- [§2000h–6. Separability](/usc/42/2000h-6.md)