---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 2000c–9"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "2000c–9"
heading: "Classification and assignment"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/2000c-9"
units:
  - "Chapter 21 — Civil Rights"
  - "Subchapter IV — Public Education"
---

# §2000c–9. Classification and assignment


Nothing in this subchapter shall prohibit classification and assignment for reasons other than race, color, religion, sex or national origin.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 88–352, title IV, § 410, July 2, 1964, 78 Stat. 249; Pub. L. 92–318, title IX, § 906(a), June 23, 1972, 86 Stat. 375.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1972—Pub. L. 92–318 inserted “sex” after “religion,”.