---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 11202"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "11202"
heading: "Promulgation of rules"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/11202"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 111 — Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention"
  - "Subchapter III — Runaway and Homeless Youth"
---

# §11202. Promulgation of rules


The Secretary of Health and Human [Services](/usc/34/12291.md?p=a-51) (hereinafter in this subchapter referred to as the “Secretary”) may issue such rules as the Secretary considers necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of this subchapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–415, title III, § 303, Sept. 7, 1974, 88 Stat. 1130; Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 650, Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 2122.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 5702 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Amendments

1984—Pub. L. 98–473 substituted “Health and Human Services” for “Health, Education, and Welfare” and “issue such rules as the Secretary” for “prescribe such rules as he”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1984 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 98–473 effective Oct. 12, 1984, see section 670(a) of Pub. L. 98–473, set out as a note under section 11101 of this title.