---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 1676"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "1676"
heading: "Enforcement by Secretary of Labor"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/1676"
units:
  - "Chapter 41 — Consumer Credit Protection"
  - "Subchapter II — Restrictions on Garnishment"
---

# §1676. Enforcement by Secretary of Labor


The [Secretary](/usc/15/1602.md?p=dd-6) of Labor, acting through the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor, shall enforce the provisions of this subchapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–321, title III, § 306, May 29, 1968, 82 Stat. 164.)