---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 U.S.C. § 1742"
title: "12"
title_heading: "Banks and Banking"
number: "1742"
heading: "Rules and regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/12/1742"
units:
  - "Chapter 13 — National Housing"
  - "Subchapter VI — War Housing Insurance"
---

# §1742. Rules and regulations


The [Secretary](/usc/12/1715z–22a.md?p=4) is authorized and directed to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this subchapter.


## Source credit

(June 27, 1934, ch. 847, title VI, § 607, as added Mar. 28, 1941, ch. 31, § 1, 55 Stat. 61; amended Apr. 20, 1950, ch. 94, title I, § 122, 64 Stat. 59; 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”.

1950—Act Apr. 20, 1950, substituted “Commissioner” for “Administrator”.