---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 1173"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "1173"
heading: "Regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/1173"
units:
  - "Chapter 24 — Conservation and Protection of North Pacific Fur Seals"
  - "Subchapter III — Enforcement"
---

# §1173. Regulations


The [Secretary](/usc/16/1151.md?p=l) is authorized to prescribe such regulations as he deems necessary and appropriate to carry out the provisions of this subchapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–702, title III, § 303, as added Pub. L. 98–129, § 2, Oct. 14, 1983, 97 Stat. 845.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to this section were contained in section 1183 of this title, prior to the complete revision of this chapter by Pub. L. 98–129.