---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 669i"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "669i"
heading: "Rules and regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/669i"
units:
  - "Chapter 5B — Wildlife Restoration"
---

# §669i. Rules and regulations


The [Secretary](/usc/16/669a.md?p=5) of the Interior is authorized to make rules and regulations for carrying out the provisions of this chapter.


## Source credit

(Sept. 2, 1937, ch. 899, § 12, formerly § 10, 50 Stat. 919; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4(f), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433; renumbered § 12, Pub. L. 106–408, title I, § 112(1), Nov. 1, 2000, 114 Stat. 1766.)

## Notes

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

Reorg. Plan No. II of 1939, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, transferred functions of Secretary of Agriculture relating to conservation of wildlife, game, and migratory birds to Secretary of the Interior.