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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Chapter 8 — Low-Income Housing

§ 1435. Access to books, documents, etc., for purpose of audit

Statutory text

Every contract for loans or annual contributions under the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended [42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.], shall provide that the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the Comptroller General of the United States, or any of their duly authorized representatives, shall, for the purpose of audit and examination, have access to any books, documents, papers, and records of the public housing agency entering into such contract that are pertinent to its operations with respect to financial assistance under the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 83–649 · 68 Stat. 788

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 1435

    Aug. 2, 1954, ch. 649, title VIII, § 816, 68 Stat. 647

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Aug. 2, 1954, ch. 649, title VIII, § 816, 68 Stat. 647

  2. Pub. L. 90–19 § 10(i) · 81 Stat. 17

    Substituted · 42 U.S.C. § 1435

    Pub. L. 90–19 substituted “Secretary of Housing and Urban Development” for “Public Housing Commissioner”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 90–19 substituted “Secretary of Housing and Urban Development” for “Public Housing Commissioner”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (i) Section 816 of such Act is amended by striking out “Public 68 Stat. 647. 42 USC 1435. Housing Commissioner” and inserting in lieu thereof “Secretary of Housing and Urban Development”.

1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended, referred to in text, is act Sept. 1, 1937, ch. 896, as revised generally by Pub. L. 93–383, title II, § 201(a), , 88 Stat. 653, which is classified generally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1437 of this title and Tables.

Codification

Section was not enacted as part of the United States Housing Act of 1937 which comprises this chapter.

Amendments

1967—Pub. L. 90–19 substituted “Secretary of Housing and Urban Development” for “Public Housing Commissioner”.

Credits

1954–1967 · 2 acts
  1. 1954Aug. 2, 1954, ch. 649, title VIII, § 816, 68 Stat. 647
  2. 1967Pub. L. 90–19, § 10(i), , 81 Stat. 23.
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(Aug. 2, 1954, ch. 649, title VIII, § 816, 68 Stat. 647; Pub. L. 90–19, § 10(i), , 81 Stat. 23.)

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