---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 2092"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "2092"
heading: "License requirements for transfers"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/2092"
units:
  - "Chapter 23 — Development and Control of Atomic Energy"
  - "Division A — Atomic Energy"
  - "Subchapter VI — Source Material"
---

# §2092. License requirements for transfers


Unless authorized by a general or specific license issued by the [Commission](/usc/42/2014.md?p=f) which the [Commission](/usc/42/2014.md?p=f) is authorized to issue, no [person](/usc/42/2014.md?p=s) may transfer or receive in interstate commerce, transfer, deliver, receive possession of or title to, or import into or export from the [United States](/usc/42/2014.md?p=bb) any [source material](/usc/42/2014.md?p=z) after removal from its place of deposit in nature, except that licenses shall not be required for quantities of [source material](/usc/42/2014.md?p=z) which, in the opinion of the [Commission](/usc/42/2014.md?p=f), are unimportant.


## Source credit

(Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, title I, § 62, as added Aug. 30, 1954, ch. 1073, § 1, 68 Stat. 932; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 102–486, title IX, § 902(a)(8), Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2944.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to this section were contained in section 1805(b)(2) of this title, prior to the general amendment and renumbering of act Aug. 1, 1946, by act Aug. 30, 1954.