{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/s229C","title_num":"18","num":"§ 229C.","heading":"Individual self-defense devices","status":null,"guid":"idbbb526e7-4aa6-11eb-bce4-d6beeb6aa2d0","source_credit":"(Added Pub. L. 105–277, div. I, title II, § 201(a), Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–869.)","seq_in_title":103,"parent_identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptI/ch11B","ancestors":[{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18","level":"title","num":"Title 18—","heading":"CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptI","level":"part","num":"PART I—","heading":"CRIMES","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptI/ch11B","level":"chapter","num":"CHAPTER 11B—","heading":"CHEMICAL WEAPONS","status":null,"is_section":false}],"xml":"<section xmlns=\"http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:dcterms=\"http://purl.org/dc/terms/\" style=\"-uslm-lc:I80\" id=\"idd341972e-b211-11e9-bc44-d051d0f40dfd\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t18/s229C\"><num value=\"229C\">§ 229C.</num><heading> Individual self-defense devices</heading><content>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\">Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prohibit any individual self-defense device, including those using a pepper spray or chemical mace.</p>\n</content><sourceCredit id=\"idd341972f-b211-11e9-bc44-d051d0f40dfd\">(Added <ref href=\"/us/pl/105/277/dI/tII/s201/a\">Pub. L. 105–277, div. I, title II, § 201(a)</ref>, <date date=\"1998-10-21\">Oct. 21, 1998</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/112/2681-869\">112 Stat. 2681–869</ref>.)</sourceCredit>\n</section>","provision":null,"duplicates":[],"release":{"label":"116-252","currency_date":"2020-12-22","congress":116,"law_num":252,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":222,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","20","31","34","40","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"served_from":{"label":"116-252","currency_date":"2020-12-22","congress":116,"law_num":252,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":222,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","20","31","34","40","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"content_first_seen":{"label":"116-33","currency_date":"2019-07-25","congress":116,"law_num":33,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":178,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["12","18","26","28","34","38","40","44"],"ingested_titles":[]},"is_exact":true,"note":null}