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Code · STATUTE-COMPILATIONS · increase accessibility to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System, to facilitate data sharing between such system and the National Crime Information Center database of the Federal Bureau · Sec. 6

Sec. 6. DEFINITIONS

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## SEC. 6 DEFINITIONS **[**[34 U.S.C. 40506 note](/us/usc/t34/s40506)**]** In this Act: ####
(1)Authorized agency The term “**authorized agency**” means a Government agency with an originating agency identification
(ORI)number and that is a criminal justice agency, as defined in section 20.3 of title 28, Code of Federal Regulations. ####
(2)FBI The term “**FBI**” means the Federal Bureau of Investigation. ####
(3)Forensic medicine service provider The term “**forensic medicine service provider**” means a State or unit of local government forensic medicine service provider having not fewer than 1 part-time or full-time employed forensic pathologist, or forensic pathologist under contract, who conducts medicolegal death investigations, including examinations of human remains, and who provides reports or opinion testimony with respect to such activity in courts of law within the United States. ####
(4)Forensic science service provider The term “**forensic science service provider**” means a State or unit of local government agency having not fewer than 1 full-time analyst who examines physical evidence in criminal or investigative matters and provides reports or opinion testimony with respect to such evidence in courts in the United States. ####
(5)Namus databases The term “**NamUs databases**” means the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System Missing Persons database and National Missing and Unidentified Persons System Unidentified Decedents database maintained by the National Institute of Justice of the Department of Justice, which serves as a clearinghouse and resource center for missing, unidentified, and unclaimed person cases. ####
(6)NCIC database The term “**NCIC database**” means the National Crime Information Center Missing Person File and National Crime Information Center Unidentified Person File of the National Crime Information Center database of the FBI, established pursuant to section 534 of title 28, United States Code. ####
(7)Qualifying law enforcement agency defined The term “**qualifying law enforcement agency**” means a State, local, or Tribal law enforcement agency. ####
(8)State The term “**State**” means any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
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