---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 44932"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "44932"
heading: "Administrative"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/44932"
units:
  - "Subtitle VII — Aviation Programs"
  - "Part A — Air Commerce and Safety"
  - "Subpart iii — safety"
  - "Chapter 449 — Security"
  - "Subchapter II — Administration and Personnel"
---

# §44932. Administrative

- (a) **General Authority.—** The Secretary of Homeland Security or the Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration may take action the Secretary or the Administrator considers necessary to carry out this chapter and chapters [461](/usc/49/chstVII/ptA/sptiv/ch461.md), [463](/usc/49/chstVII/ptA/sptiv/ch463.md), and [465](/usc/49/chstVII/ptA/sptiv/ch465.md) of this title, including conducting investigations, prescribing regulations, standards, and procedures, and issuing orders.
- (b) **Indemnification.—** The Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration may indemnify an officer or [employee](/usc/49/49103.md?p=2) of the Transportation Security Administration against a claim or judgment arising out of an act that the Administrator decides was committed within the scope of the official duties of the officer or [employee](/usc/49/49103.md?p=2).

## 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 44932, Pub. L. 103–272, § 1(e), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 1215; Pub. L. 107–71, title I, § 110(a), Nov. 19, 2001, 115 Stat. 614, related to the Assistant Administrator for Civil Aviation Security, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 107–71, title I, § 101(f)(6), Nov. 19, 2001, 115 Stat. 603.