---
kind: "section"
citation: "52 U.S.C. § 20107"
title: "52"
title_heading: "Voting and Elections"
number: "20107"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/52/20107"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Voting Assistance and Election Administration"
  - "Chapter 201 — Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped"
---

# §20107. Definitions


As used in this chapter, the term—

- (1) “accessible” means accessible to [handicapped](#4) and [elderly](#2) individuals for the purpose of voting or registration, as determined under guidelines established by the chief [election](/usc/52/20502.md?p=1) officer of the [State](#5) involved;
- (2) “elderly” means 65 years of age or older;
- (3) “Federal election” means a general, special, primary, or runoff [election](/usc/52/20502.md?p=1) for the office of President or Vice President, or of Senator or Representative in, or Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress;
- (4) “handicapped” means having a temporary or permanent physical disability; and
- (5) “State” means a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and any territory or possesssion[^1] of the United States.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “possession”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 98–435, § 8, Sept. 28, 1984, 98 Stat. 1679.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 1973ee–6 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section applicable with respect to elections taking place after Dec. 31, 1985, see section 9 of Pub. L. 98–435, set out as a note under section 20101 of this title.