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Code · STATUTE-COMPILATIONS · enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes · Sec. 13

Sec. 13. **[**[52 U.S.C. 10309](/us/usc/t52/s10309)**]**

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## Sec. 13 **[**[52 U.S.C. 10309](/us/usc/t52/s10309)**]** ###
(a)The assignment of observers shall terminate in any political subdivision of any State— ####
(1)with respect to observers appointed pursuant to section 8 or with respect to examiners certified under this Act before the date of the enactment of the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, César E. Chávez, Barbara C. Jordan, William C. Velásquez, and Dr. Hector P. Garcia Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006, whenever the Attorney General notifies the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, or whenever the District Court for the District of Columbia determines in an action for declaratory judgment brought by any political subdivision described in subsection (b), that there is no longer reasonable cause to believe that persons will be deprived of or denied the right to vote on account of race or color, or in contravention of the guarantees set forth in section 4(f)(2) in such subdivision; and ####
(2)with respect to observers appointed pursuant to section 3(a), upon order of the authorizing court. ###
(b)A political subdivision referred to in subsection (a)(1) is one with respect to which the Director of the Census has determined that more than 50 per centum of the nonwhite persons of voting age residing therein are registered to vote. ###
(c)A political subdivision may petition the Attorney General for a termination under subsection (a)(1).
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