---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 301c"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "301c"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/301c"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter IV — Border, Maritime, and Transportation Security"
  - "Part G — U.S. Customs and Border Protection Public Private Partnerships"
---

# §301c. Definitions


In this part:

- (1) **Donor—** The term “donor” means any [entity](#2) that is proposing to make a donation under this chapter.
- (2) **Entity—** The term “entity” means any—
  - (A) person;
  - (B) partnership, corporation, trust, estate, cooperative, association, or any other organized group of persons;
  - (C) Federal, [State](/usc/6/101.md?p=17) or [local government](/usc/6/101.md?p=13) (including any subdivision, [agency](/usc/6/671.md?p=1) or instrumentality thereof); or
  - (D) any other private or governmental [entity](#2).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–296, title IV, § 484, as added Pub. L. 114–279, § 2(a), Dec. 16, 2016, 130 Stat. 1421.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in par. (1), was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 107–296, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2135, known as the Homeland Security Act of 2002, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 101 of this title and Tables.