---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 5424"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "5424"
heading: "Rules and regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/5424"
units:
  - "Chapter 70 — Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards"
---

# §5424. Rules and regulations


The [Secretary](/usc/42/5402.md?p=11) is authorized to issue, amend, and revoke such rules and regulations as he deems necessary to carry out this chapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–383, title VI, § 625, Aug. 22, 1974, 88 Stat. 713.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective upon the expiration of 180 days following Aug. 22, 1974, see section 627 of Pub. L. 93–383, set out as a note under section 5401 of this title.

### Regulations and Procedures With Regard to Manufactured Homes

Pub. L. 96–399, title III, § 308(c)(7), Oct. 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 1641, provided that: “In adopting regulations and procedures in accordance with this subsection [see Tables for classification] the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall have discretion to take actions in a manner which he deems necessary to insure that the public is fully aware of the distinctions between the various types of factory-built housing.”