{"identifier":"/us/usc/t42/s2000cc\u20131","title":42,"num":"\u00a7\u202f2000cc\u20131.","heading":"Protection of religious exercise of institutionalized persons","text":"\u00a7\u202f2000cc\u20131.\nProtection of religious exercise of institutionalized persons\n(a)\nGeneral rule\nNo government shall impose a substantial burden on the religious exercise of a person residing in or confined to an institution, as defined in\n(1) is in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest; and\n(2) is the least restrictive means of furthering that compelling governmental interest.\n(b)\nScope of application\nThis section applies in any case in which\u2014\n(1) the substantial burden is imposed in a program or activity that receives Federal financial assistance; or\n(2) the substantial burden affects, or removal of that substantial burden would affect, commerce with foreign nations, among the several States, or with Indian tribes.","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t42/s2000cc\u20131.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t42/s2000cc\u20131","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f2000cc\u20131."},{"t":"heading","text":"Protection of religious exercise of institutionalized persons"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t42/s2000cc\u20131/a","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(a)"},{"t":"heading","text":"General rule"},{"t":"chapeau","text":"No government shall impose a substantial burden on the religious exercise of a person residing in or confined to an institution, as defined in ","children":[{"t":"ref","text":"section 1997 of this title","href":"/us/usc/t42/s1997","tail":", even if the burden results from a rule of general applicability, unless the government demonstrates that imposition of the burden on that person\u2014"}]},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t42/s2000cc\u20131/a/1","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(1)"},{"t":"content","text":" is in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest; and","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t42/s2000cc\u20131/a/2","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(2)"},{"t":"content","text":" is the least restrictive means of furthering that compelling governmental interest.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t42/s2000cc\u20131/b","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(b)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Scope of application"},{"t":"chapeau","text":"This section applies in any case in which\u2014"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t42/s2000cc\u20131/b/1","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(1)"},{"t":"content","text":" the substantial burden is imposed in a program or activity that receives Federal financial assistance; or","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t42/s2000cc\u20131/b/2","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(2)"},{"t":"content","text":" the substantial burden affects, or removal of that substantial burden would affect, commerce with foreign nations, among the several States, or with Indian tribes.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}