---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 1718"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "1718"
heading: "Rules, regulations, and orders"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/1718"
units:
  - "Chapter 42 — Interstate Land Sales"
---

# §1718. Rules, regulations, and orders


The [Director](/usc/15/1701.md?p=1) shall have authority from time to time to make, issue, amend, and rescind such rules and regulations and such orders as are necessary or appropriate to the exercise of the functions and powers conferred upon him elsewhere in this chapter. For the purpose of his rules and regulations, the [Director](/usc/15/1701.md?p=1) may classify [persons](/usc/15/1701.md?p=2) and matters within his jurisdiction and prescribe different requirements for different classes of [persons](/usc/15/1701.md?p=2) or matters.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–448, title XIV, § 1419, Aug. 1, 1968, 82 Stat. 598; 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” in two places.

### 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.