§ 101. — Defective, dependent, and delinquent classes; crime.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 13USC101]
TITLE 13--CENSUS
CHAPTER 3--COLLECTION AND PUBLICATION OF STATISTICS
SUBCHAPTER V--MISCELLANEOUS
Sec. 101. Defective, dependent, and delinquent classes; crime
(a) The Secretary may collect decennially statistics relating--
(1) to the defective, dependent, and delinquent classes; and
(2) to crime, including judicial statistics pertaining thereto.
(b) The statistics authorized by subsection (a) of this section
shall include information upon the following questions, namely: age,
sex, color, nativity, parentage, literacy by race, color, nativity, and
parentage, and such other questions relating to such subjects as the
Secretary deems proper.
(c) In addition to the decennial collections authorized by
subsections (a) and (b) of this section, the Secretary may compile and
publish annually statistics relating to crime and to the defective,
dependent, and delinquent classes.
(Aug. 31, 1954, ch. 1158, 68 Stat. 1018.)
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on title 13, U.S.C., 1952 ed., Secs. 111, 113 (Mar. 6, 1902,
ch. 139, Sec. 7, 32 Stat. 52; June 7, 1906, ch. 3048, 34 Stat. 218; June
18, 1929, ch. 28, Sec. 3, 46 Stat. 21; Mar. 4, 1931, ch. 490, 46 Stat.
1517; 1939 Reorganization Plan No. II, Sec. 4(e), eff. July 1, 1939, 4
F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1431; 1940 Reorganization Plan No. III, Sec. 3, 5
F.R. 2107, 54 Stat. 1232; June 25, 1947, ch. 124, 61 Stat. 163; Sept. 7,
1950, ch. 910, Sec. 4, 64 Stat. 785).
Section consolidates part of section 111 of title 13, U.S.C., 1952
ed., with section 113 of such title which also related to statistics
with respect to crime and to the ``defective, dependent, and delinquent
classes''.
``Secretary'', meaning the Secretary of Commerce, was substituted
for ``Director of the Census'' to conform with Reorganization Plan No.
5, Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1263. See
Revision Note to section 4 of this title.
The provisions of section 111 of title 13, U.S.C., 1952 ed.,
authorizing statistics relating to transportation by water, and express
business, to mines, mining, quarries, and minerals, to savings banks and
other savings institutions, mortgage, loan, and investment companies,
and similar institutions, and to street railways, electric light and
power, telephone, and telegraph business, were omitted as superseded and
covered by sections 121-123 of such title (enacted in 1948), which are
set out elsewhere in this title. See Distribution Table.
Section 111 of title 13, U.S.C., 1952 ed., also authorized the
decennial collection of statistics relating to the fishing industry ``in
cooperation with the Fish and Wildlife Service''. In the basic statutory
provision (see amendment by act June 7, 1906, ch. 3048, 34 Stat. 218,
``Fish and Wildlife Service'' read ``Bureau of Fisheries'' and it was
changed, by the codifiers, in such section 111 to the former designation
because of 1940 Reorganization Plan No. III, Sec. 3, 5 F.R. 2107, 54
Stat. 1232, which consolidated the Bureau of Fisheries and the Bureau of
Biological Survey into one agency to be known as the ``Fish and Wildlife
Service''. However, at the time of the enactment of the 1906 act,
referred to above, both the Bureau of the Fisheries, and the Census
Bureau (then referred to as the ``Census Office''), were in the
Department of Commerce. The Bureau of Fisheries was transferred to the
Department of the Interior by 1939 Reorganization Plan No. II,
Sec. 4(e), 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1431, and it is within that department
that the Fish and Wildlife Service now functions. Therefore, such
provision in section 111 of title 13, U.S.C., 1952 ed., has been omitted
from this revised title as obsolete. In any event section 121 of title
13, U.S.C., 1952 ed. (subchapter I of chapter 5 of this revised title)
is broad enough to authorize such collection.
The provisions of section 111 of title 13, U.S.C., 1952 ed., which
authorized statistics relating to religion, and the provisions thereof
which related to the designation of reports, are set out as separate
sections in this subchapter; and the provisions thereof which related to
the preparation of schedules, and which authorized the appointment of
special agents, are set out in chapter 1 of this title. See Distribution
Table.
The proviso in section 111 of title 13, U.S.C., 1952 ed., which
prohibited the collection of statistics relating to religious or church
membership when the disclosure of such information was prohibited by
religious or church doctrine, teaching or discipline, has been
incorporated in chapter 7 of this title. See Distribution Table.
