---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 1704"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "1704"
heading: "Registration of subdivisions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/1704"
units:
  - "Chapter 42 — Interstate Land Sales"
---

# §1704. Registration of subdivisions

- (a) **Filing of statement of record—** A [subdivision](/usc/15/1701.md?p=3) may be registered by filing with the [Director](/usc/15/1701.md?p=1) a statement of record, meeting the requirements of this chapter and such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the [Director](/usc/15/1701.md?p=1) in furtherance of the provisions of this chapter. A statement of record shall be deemed effective only as to the lots specified therein.
- (b) **Payment of fees; use by Director—** At the time of filing a statement of record, or any amendment thereto, the [developer](/usc/15/1701.md?p=5) shall pay to the [Director](/usc/15/1701.md?p=1) a fee, not in excess of $1,000, in accordance with a schedule to be fixed by the regulations of the [Director](/usc/15/1701.md?p=1), which fees may be used by the [Director](/usc/15/1701.md?p=1) to cover all or part of the cost of rendering services under this chapter, and such expenses as are paid from such fees shall be considered nonadministrative.
- (c) **Filing deemed to have taken place upon receipt of statement of record accompanied by fee—** The filing with the [Director](/usc/15/1701.md?p=1) of a statement of record, or of an amendment thereto, shall be deemed to have taken place upon the receipt thereof, accompanied by payment of the fee required by [subsection (b)](#b).
- (d) **Availability of information to public—** The information contained in or filed with any statement of record shall be made available to the public under such regulations as the [Director](/usc/15/1701.md?p=1) may prescribe and copies thereof shall be furnished to every [applicant](/usc/15/7a.md?p=3) at such reasonable charge as the [Director](/usc/15/1701.md?p=1) may prescribe.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–448, title XIV, § 1405, Aug. 1, 1968, 82 Stat. 592; Pub. L. 111–203, title X, § 1098A(1), July 21, 2010, 124 Stat. 2105.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2010—Pub. L. 111–203 substituted “Director” for “Secretary” wherever appearing.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2010 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 111–203 effective on the designated transfer date, see section 1100H of Pub. L. 111–203, set out as a note under section 552a of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

### Effective Date

Section effective upon the expiration of two hundred and seventy days after Aug. 1, 1968, see section 1423 of Pub. L. 90–448, set out as a note under section 1701 of this title.