---
kind: "section"
citation: "31 U.S.C. § 5304"
title: "31"
title_heading: "Money and Finance"
number: "5304"
heading: "Regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/31/5304"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Money"
  - "Chapter 53 — Monetary Transactions"
  - "Subchapter I — Credit and Monetary Expansion"
---

# §5304. Regulations


With the approval of the President, the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe regulations—

- (1) to carry out [section 5301 of this title](/usc/31/5301.md); and
- (2) the Secretary considers necessary to carry out [section 5302 of this title](/usc/31/5302.md).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 994.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 5304 | 31:822. | May 12, 1933, ch. 25, § 44, 48 Stat. 53. |
|  | 31:822b. | Jan. 30, 1934, ch. 6, § 11, 48 Stat. 342. |

Before clause (1), the words “prescribe regulations” are substituted for “make and promulgate rules and regulations” in 31:822 and “issue . . . such rules and regulations” in 31:822b for consistency. In clause (1), the words “to carry out” are substituted for “covering any action taken or to be taken by the President under” in 31:822 to eliminate unnecessary words. In clause (2), the words “or proper” in 31:822b and “the purposes of” are omitted as surplus. Reference to 31:821 is omitted as obsolete because silver is no longer coined. Reference to 31:824 is omitted as obsolete because 31:824 is executed and is not part of the revised title.