---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 44931"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "44931"
heading: "Authority to exempt"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/44931"
units:
  - "Subtitle VII — Aviation Programs"
  - "Part A — Air Commerce and Safety"
  - "Subpart iii — safety"
  - "Chapter 449 — Security"
  - "Subchapter II — Administration and Personnel"
---

# §44931. Authority to exempt


The Secretary of Homeland Security may grant an exemption from a regulation prescribed in carrying out sections [44901](/usc/49/44901.md), [44903](/usc/49/44903.md), [44906](/usc/49/44906.md), [44909(c)](/usc/49/44909.md?p=c), and 44935–44937 of this title when the Secretary decides the exemption is in the public interest.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 115–254, div. K, title I, § 1991(j)(1), Oct. 5, 2018, 132 Stat. 3645.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 44931, Pub. L. 103–272, § 1(e), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 1215, related to the Director of Intelligence and Security, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 107–71, title I, § 101(f)(6), Nov. 19, 2001, 115 Stat. 603.