---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 2000d–3"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "2000d–3"
heading: "Construction of provisions not to authorize administrative action with respect to employment practices except where primary objective of Federal financial assistance is to provide employment"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/2000d-3"
units:
  - "Chapter 21 — Civil Rights"
  - "Subchapter V — Federally Assisted Programs"
---

# §2000d–3. Construction of provisions not to authorize administrative action with respect to employment practices except where primary objective of Federal financial assistance is to provide employment


Nothing contained in this subchapter shall be construed to authorize action under this subchapter by any department or [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) with respect to any employment practice of any employer, employment [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1), or labor organization except where a primary objective of the Federal financial assistance is to provide employment.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 88–352, title VI, § 604, July 2, 1964, 78 Stat. 253.)