---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 1712"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "1712"
heading: "Contrary stipulations void"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/1712"
units:
  - "Chapter 42 — Interstate Land Sales"
---

# §1712. Contrary stipulations void


Any condition, stipulation, or provision binding any [person](/usc/15/1701.md?p=2) acquiring any lot in a [subdivision](/usc/15/1701.md?p=3) to waive compliance with any provision of this chapter or of the rules and regulations of the [Director](/usc/15/1701.md?p=1) shall be void.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–448, title XIV, § 1413, Aug. 1, 1968, 82 Stat. 596; 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”.

### 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.