---
kind: "section"
citation: "45 U.S.C. § 162"
title: "45"
title_heading: "Railroads"
number: "162"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/45/162"
units:
  - "Chapter 8 — Railway Labor"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §162. Authorization of appropriations


There is authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for expenditure by the Mediation Board in carrying out the provisions of this chapter.


## Source credit

(May 20, 1926, ch. 347, § 12, 44 Stat. 587; June 21, 1934, ch. 691, § 7, 48 Stat. 1197.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1934—Act June 21, 1934, substituted “Mediation Board” for “Board of Mediation”.