---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 5165a"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "5165a"
heading: "Minimum standards for public and private structures"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/5165a"
units:
  - "Chapter 68 — Disaster Relief"
  - "Subchapter III — Major Disaster and Emergency Assistance Administration"
---

# §5165a. Minimum standards for public and private structures

- (a) **In general—** As a condition of receipt of a [disaster](/usc/42/5204.md?p=2) loan or grant under this chapter—
  - (1) the recipient shall carry out any repair or [construction](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=7) to be financed with the loan or grant in accordance with applicable standards of safety, decency, and sanitation and in conformity with applicable codes, specifications, and standards; and
  - (2) the President may require safe land use and [construction](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=7) [practices](/usc/42/17061.md?p=19), after adequate consultation with appropriate [State](/usc/42/5122.md?p=4) and [local government](/usc/42/5122.md?p=8) officials.
- (b) **Evidence of compliance—** A recipient of a [disaster](/usc/42/5204.md?p=2) loan or grant under this chapter shall provide such evidence of compliance with this section as the President may require by regulation.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–288, title III, § 323, as added Pub. L. 106–390, title I, § 104(a), Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1559.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 93–288, May 22, 1974, 88 Stat. 143. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 5121 of this title and Tables.