---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 5344"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "5344"
heading: "Rules and regulations; minimum standards of service"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/5344"
units:
  - "Chapter 46 — Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance"
  - "Subchapter II — Contracts with States"
---

# §5344. Rules and regulations; minimum standards of service


The [Secretary](/usc/25/5381.md?p=a-6) of the Interior is authorized to perform any and all acts and to make such rules and regulations, including minimum standards of service, as may be necessary and proper for the purpose of carrying the provisions of sections [5342](/usc/25/5342.md) to [5348](/usc/25/5348.md) of this title into effect: Provided, That such minimum standards of service are not less than the highest maintained by the States or Territories within which said contract or contracts, as herein provided, are to be effective.


## Source credit

(Apr. 16, 1934, ch. 147, § 3, 48 Stat. 596; June 4, 1936, ch. 490, § 3, 49 Stat. 1459.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 454 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Amendments

1936—Act June 4, 1936, substituted “within which” for “with which”.