---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 1703"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "1703"
heading: "“Contractor with the United States” defined"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/1703"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Compensation for Injury, Death, or Detention of Employees of Contractors with United States Outside United States"
  - "Subchapter I — Compensation, Reimbursement, Etc., by Secretary of Labor"
---

# §1703. “Contractor with the United States” defined


As used in this subchapter, the term “contractor with the United States” includes any subcontractor or subordinate subcontractor with respect to the contract of such contractor.


## Source credit

(Dec. 2, 1942, ch. 668, title I, § 103, 56 Stat. 1031.)