---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 77u"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "77u"
heading: "Hearings by Commission"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/77u"
units:
  - "Chapter 2A — Securities and Trust Indentures"
  - "Subchapter I — Domestic Securities"
---

# §77u. Hearings by Commission


All hearings shall be public and may be held before the [Commission](/usc/15/77b.md?p=a-5) or an officer or officers of the [Commission](/usc/15/77b.md?p=a-5) designated by it, and appropriate records thereof shall be kept.


## Source credit

(May 27, 1933, ch. 38, title I, § 21, 48 Stat. 86.)

## Notes

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

For transfer of functions of Securities and Exchange Commission, with certain exceptions, to Chairman of such Commission, see Reorg. Plan No. 10 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3175, 64 Stat. 1265, set out under section 78d of this title.