---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 1709"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "1709"
heading: "Intervention by Attorney General"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/1709"
units:
  - "Chapter 39 — Equal Educational Opportunities and Transportation of Students"
  - "Subchapter I — Equal Educational Opportunities"
  - "Part 3 — Enforcement"
---

# §1709. Intervention by Attorney General


Whenever a civil action is instituted under [section 1706 of this title](/usc/20/1706.md) by an individual, the Attorney General may intervene in such action upon timely application.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–380, title II, § 210, Aug. 21, 1974, 88 Stat. 516.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective on and after sixtieth day after Aug. 21, 1974, see section 2(c) of Pub. L. 93–380, set out as a note under section 1221–1 of this title.