---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 6102"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "6102"
heading: "Prohibition of discrimination"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/6102"
units:
  - "Chapter 76 — Age Discrimination in Federally Assisted Programs"
---

# §6102. Prohibition of discrimination


Pursuant to regulations prescribed under [section 6103 of this title](/usc/42/6103.md), and except as provided by [section 6103(b)](/usc/42/6103.md?p=b) and [section 6103(c) of this title](/usc/42/6103.md?p=c), no person in the United States shall, on the basis of age, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under, any [program or activity](/usc/42/6107.md?p=4) receiving Federal financial assistance.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–135, title III, § 303, Nov. 28, 1975, 89 Stat. 728.)