---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 157"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "157"
heading: "Regulations and fees; disposition of fees and penalties"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/157"
units:
  - "Chapter 4 — China Trade"
---

# §157. Regulations and fees; disposition of fees and penalties

- (a) The [Secretary](/usc/15/142.md?p=e) is authorized to make such regulations as may be necessary to carry into effect the functions vested in him or in the [registrar](/usc/15/142.md?p=f) by this chapter.
- (b) The [Secretary](/usc/15/142.md?p=e) is authorized to prescribe and fix the amount of such fees (other than the incorporation fee) to be paid him or the [registrar](/usc/15/142.md?p=f) for services rendered by the [Secretary](/usc/15/142.md?p=e) or the [registrar](/usc/15/142.md?p=f) to any [person](/usc/15/142.md?p=a) in the [administration](/usc/15/636e.md?p=1) of the provisions of this chapter. All fees and penalties paid under this chapter shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts.

## Source credit

(Sept. 19, 1922, ch. 346, § 17, 42 Stat. 854.)