{"identifier":"/us/usc/t42/s300jj\u201316","title":42,"num":"\u00a7\u202f300jj\u201316.","heading":"Voluntary application and use of adopted standards and implementation specifications by private entities","text":"\u00a7\u202f300jj\u201316.\nVoluntary application and use of adopted standards and implementation specifications by private entities\n(a)\nIn general\nExcept as provided under section 13112 of the HITECH Act [\n(1) to require a private entity to adopt or comply with a standard or implementation specification adopted under\nsection 300jj\u201314 of this title\n(2) to provide a Federal agency authority, other than the authority such agency may have under other provisions of law, to require a private entity to comply with such a standard or implementation specification.\n(b)\nRule of construction\nNothing in this part shall be construed to require that a private entity that enters into a contract with the Federal Government apply or use the standards and implementation specifications adopted under\nsection 300jj\u201314 of this title","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t42/s300jj\u201316.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t42/s300jj\u201316","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f300jj\u201316."},{"t":"heading","text":"Voluntary application and use of adopted standards and implementation specifications by private entities"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t42/s300jj\u201316/a","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(a)"},{"t":"heading","text":"In general"},{"t":"chapeau","text":"Except as provided under section 13112 of the HITECH Act [","children":[{"t":"ref","text":"42 U.S.C. 17902","href":"/us/usc/t42/s17902","tail":"], nothing in such Act or in the amendments made by such Act shall be construed\u2014"}]},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t42/s300jj\u201316/a/1","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(1)"},{"t":"content","text":" to require a private entity to adopt or comply with a standard or implementation specification adopted under ","children":[{"t":"ref","text":"section 300jj\u201314 of this title","href":"/us/usc/t42/s300jj\u201314","tail":"; or"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t42/s300jj\u201316/a/2","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(2)"},{"t":"content","text":" to provide a Federal agency authority, other than the authority such agency may have under other provisions of law, to require a private entity to comply with such a standard or implementation specification.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t42/s300jj\u201316/b","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(b)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Rule of construction"},{"t":"content","children":[{"t":"p","text":"Nothing in this part shall be construed to require that a private entity that enters into a contract with the Federal Government apply or use the standards and implementation specifications adopted under ","children":[{"t":"ref","text":"section 300jj\u201314 of this title","href":"/us/usc/t42/s300jj\u201314","tail":" with respect to activities not related to the contract."}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}