---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 13601"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "13601"
heading: "Compliance by owners as condition of Federal assistance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/13601"
units:
  - "Chapter 135 — Residency and Service Requirements in Federally Assisted Housing"
  - "Subchapter I — Standards and Obligations of Residency in Federally Assisted Housing"
---

# §13601. Compliance by owners as condition of Federal assistance


The [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) of Housing and Urban Development shall require [owners](/usc/42/13664.md?p=a-3) of [federally assisted housing](/usc/42/13664.md?p=a-2) (as such term is defined in [section 13641(2) of this title](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2)), as a condition of receiving [housing assistance](/usc/42/13641.md?p=3) for such housing, to comply with the procedures and requirements established under this subchapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–550, title VI, § 641, Oct. 28, 1992, 106 Stat. 3820.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Chapter applicable upon expiration of 6-month period beginning Oct. 28, 1992, except as otherwise provided, see section 13642 of this title.