Title 12 — Banks and BankingRelease 119-73
§1715 Statistical and economic surveys
Title 12 › Chapter CHAPTER 13— - NATIONAL HOUSING › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - MORTGAGE INSURANCE › § 1715
Summary
The Secretary must carry out statistical, legal, and economic studies linked to the insurance programs to help shape housing policy and a stable mortgage market, and must publish the results from time to time. The costs of those studies and of publishing and sharing the results must be paid from the insurance fund or funds the Secretary chooses.
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Title 12, §1715
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The Secretary shall cause to be made in connection with the insurance programs such statistical surveys and legal and economic studies as he shall deem useful to guide the development of housing and the creation of a sound mortgage market in the United States, and shall publish from time to time the results of such surveys and studies. Expenses of such studies and surveys, and expenses of publication and distribution of the results of such studies and surveys, shall be charged as a general expense of such insurance fund or funds, as the Secretary shall determine.
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Amendments
1967—Pub. L. 90–19 substituted “Secretary” for “Commissioner” wherever appearing and inserted “in connection with the insurance programs” after “made”. 1965—Pub. L. 89–117 struck out “or account or accounts,” after “fund or funds,”. 1961—Pub. L. 87–70 substituted “shall be charged as a general expense of such insurance fund or funds, or account or accounts, as the Commissioner shall determine” for “shall be charged as a general expense of the Fund, the Housing Fund, and the Defense Housing Insurance Fund in such proportion as the Commissioner shall determine”. 1950—Act Apr. 20, 1950, substituted “Commissioner” for “Administrator” wherever appearing. 1941—Act Mar. 28, 1941, substituted “Fund, the Housing Fund, and the Defense Housing Insurance Fund” for “Fund and the Housing Fund”. 1938—Act Feb. 3, 1938, inserted “and the Housing Fund in such proportion as the Administrator shall determine” after “Fund”.
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12 U.S.C. § 1715
Title 12 — Banks and Banking
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73