---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 1735e"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "1735e"
heading: "Acceptance of materials or products used in structures"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/1735e"
units:
  - "Chapter 13 — National Housing"
  - "Subchapter V — Miscellaneous"
---

# §1735e. Acceptance of materials or products used in structures


The [Secretary](/usc/12/1715z–22a.md?p=4) shall adopt a uniform procedure for the acceptance of materials and products to be used in structures approved for [mortgages](/usc/12/1707.md?p=a) or loans insured under this chapter. Under such procedure any material or product which the [Secretary](/usc/12/1715z–22a.md?p=4) finds is technically suitable for the use proposed shall be accepted. Acceptance of a material or product as technically suitable shall not be deemed to restrict the discretion of the [Secretary](/usc/12/1715z–22a.md?p=4) to determine that a structure, with respect to which a [mortgage](/usc/12/1707.md?p=a) is executed, is economically sound or an acceptable risk.


## Source credit

(June 27, 1934, ch. 847, title V, § 521, as added Pub. L. 89–117, title II, § 216, Aug. 10, 1965, 79 Stat. 473; amended Pub. L. 90–19, § 1(a)(3), May 25, 1967, 81 Stat. 17.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1967—Pub. L. 90–19 substituted “Secretary” for “Commissioner” wherever appearing.