---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 43"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "43"
heading: "Office and place of meeting"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/43"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — Federal Trade Commission; Promotion of Export Trade and Prevention of Unfair Methods of Competition"
  - "Subchapter I — Federal Trade Commission"
---

# §43. Office and place of meeting


The principal office of the Commission shall be in the city of Washington, but it may meet and exercise all its powers at any other place. The Commission may, by one or more of its members, or by such examiners as it may designate, prosecute any inquiry necessary to its duties in any part of the United States.


## Source credit

(Sept. 26, 1914, ch. 311, § 3, 38 Stat. 719.)

## Notes

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

For transfer of functions of Federal Trade Commission, with certain exceptions, to Chairman of such Commission, see Reorg. Plan No. 8 of 1950, § 1, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3175, 64 Stat. 1264, set out under section 41 of this title.