Can Census Workers Enter Your Home Without Permission?
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2010/06/01 20:00:00
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As if some Americans don't already view census workers with suspicious.
According to Bob Barr, former Georgia Congressman and Libertarian candidate for president, federal law allows census workers "to demand access to any apartment or any other type of home or room that is rented out, in order to count persons in the abode and for “the collection of statistics.” If the landlord of such apartment or other leased premises refuses to grant the government worker access to your living quarters, whether you are present or not, the landlord can be fined $500.00."
Barr also says that some workers are demanding and getting cell phone numbers from landlords in order to call tenants and obtain information from them.
It appears to be a liberal reading of the code:
Title 13, Chapter 7, Subchapter II, § 223 of the US Code. The section prevents the owner or manger of “any hotel, apartment house, boarding or lodging house, tenement, or other building” from refusing to provide a list of the buildings occupants or providing access to “such premises”. This means a building’s owner or manger cannot refuse to let a census worker into or out of the building and cannot refuse to provide a list of occupants for the purpose of the census count. The penalty for refusal is $500. No where in the section does it authorize entry into individual apartments, lodgings, or “living quarters”.
According to Bob Barr, former Georgia Congressman and Libertarian candidate for president, federal law allows census workers "to demand access to any apartment or any other type of home or room that is rented out, in order to count persons in the abode and for “the collection of statistics.” If the landlord of such apartment or other leased premises refuses to grant the government worker access to your living quarters, whether you are present or not, the landlord can be fined $500.00."
Barr also says that some workers are demanding and getting cell phone numbers from landlords in order to call tenants and obtain information from them.
It appears to be a liberal reading of the code:
Title 13, Chapter 7, Subchapter II, § 223 of the US Code. The section prevents the owner or manger of “any hotel, apartment house, boarding or lodging house, tenement, or other building” from refusing to provide a list of the buildings occupants or providing access to “such premises”. This means a building’s owner or manger cannot refuse to let a census worker into or out of the building and cannot refuse to provide a list of occupants for the purpose of the census count. The penalty for refusal is $500. No where in the section does it authorize entry into individual apartments, lodgings, or “living quarters”.
Read More: http://blogs.ajc.com/bob-barr-blog/2010/05/26/cens...
Go away, intrusive federal jerks, none of your business if I own or rent, or how much my payment is, or whether a relative helped me get that proplerty. NOT you business.
I threw the "census" spy off my property when the Census spy started lying to me about how the Constitution requires them to collect three pages of personal data about the residents of my property.
I explained the recent change in Texas law from the "duty to retreat" crap to the "castle" law where a man's home is his castle and the right to the use of deadly force in defending his person or home from threat of harm.
If the Federal government snooping isn't a threat of harm I don't know what is.
The Census worker had apparently never seen a .45 Colt revolver round from the muzzle end of a handgun.
In Texas criminal trespass is when a person with the authority of the landowner instructs you to depart the premises and you fail to get moving for the nearest property line.
After all, I have explicit 4th amendment rights and there will be NO code within the U.S. nor any Patriot Act that will get in my way of such. But if those census workers want to come in to my house, then they better be prepared to meet my personally trained killer dog.
But one thing what would be interesting is to find which session of Congress passed this USC amendment and what president signed into law.
I reported her, I reported her threats and I filed a complaint.
That's what I get from reading the paragraph titled Title 13, Chapter 7, Subchapter II, § 223 of the US Code