---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 2003"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "2003"
heading: "Regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/2003"
units:
  - "Chapter 22 — Indian Hospitals and Health Facilities"
  - "Subchapter I — Maintenance and Operation"
---

# §2003. Regulations


The [Secretary](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=2) of Health and Human Services is also authorized to make such other regulations as he deems desirable to carry out the provisions of this subchapter.


## Source credit

(Aug. 5, 1954, ch. 658, § 3, 68 Stat. 674; Pub. L. 96–88, title V, § 509(b), Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 695.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

“Secretary of Health and Human Services” substituted in text for “Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare” pursuant to section 509(b) of Pub. L. 96–88, which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education.

### Effective Date

Section effective July 1, 1959, see section 6 of act Aug. 5, 1954, set out as a note under section 2001 of this title.