---
kind: "section"
citation: "24 C.F.R. § 10.2"
title: "24"
number: "10.2"
heading: "Definitions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/24/10.2"
---

# §10.2. Definitions.

- (a) **Rule—** or Regulation means all or part of any Departmental statement of general or particular applicability and future effect designed to: (1) Implement, interpret, or prescribe law or policy, or (2) describe the Department's organization, or its procedure or practice requirements. The term regulation is sometimes applied to a rule which has been published in the Code of Federal Regulations.
- (b) Rulemaking means the Departmental process for considering and formulating the issuance, modification, or repeal of a rule.
- (c) Secretary means the Secretary or the Under Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, or an official to whom the Secretary has expressly delegated authority to issue rules.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 3535(d).

### Source

Source: 44 FR 1606, Jan. 5, 1979, unless otherwise noted.