---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 48"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "48"
heading: "Information and assistance from departments"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/48"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — Federal Trade Commission; Promotion of Export Trade and Prevention of Unfair Methods of Competition"
  - "Subchapter I — Federal Trade Commission"
---

# §48. Information and assistance from departments


The several departments and bureaus of the Government when directed by the President shall furnish the Commission, upon its request, all records, papers, and information in their possession relating to any corporation subject to any of the provisions of this subchapter, and shall detail from time to time such officials and employees to the Commission as he may direct.


## Source credit

(Sept. 26, 1914, ch. 311, § 8, 38 Stat. 722.)

## 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.