---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 1269"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "1269"
heading: "Regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/1269"
units:
  - "Chapter 30 — Hazardous Substances"
---

# §1269. Regulations

- (a) **Authority—** The authority to promulgate regulations for the efficient enforcement of this chapter, except as otherwise provided in this section, is vested in the [Commission](/usc/15/1261.md?p=c).
- (b) **Joint regulations—** The Secretary of the Treasury and the [Commission](/usc/15/1261.md?p=c) shall jointly prescribe regulations for the efficient enforcement of the provisions of [section 1273 of this title](/usc/15/1273.md), except as otherwise provided therein. Such regulations shall be promulgated in such manner and take effect at such time, after due notice, as the [Commission](/usc/15/1261.md?p=c) shall determine.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 86–613, § 10, July 12, 1960, 74 Stat. 378; Pub. L. 110–314, title II, § 204(b)(4)(B), (E), Aug. 14, 2008, 122 Stat. 3041, 3042.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2008—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 110–314, § 204(b)(4)(B), substituted “Commission” for “Secretary”.

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 110–314, § 204(b)(4)(E), substituted “Commission” for “Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare” in two places.