Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-102
§1437y Provision of Information to Law Enforcement and Other Agencies
Title 42 › CHAPTER 8 — LOW-INCOME HOUSING › SUBCHAPTER I — GENERAL PROGRAM OF ASSISTED HOUSING › § 1437y
Summary
Immigration and Naturalization Service (the Service). Secretary must, at least four times a year and when the Service asks, give the Service the name, address, and other ID information for anyone the Secretary knows is not lawfully in the United States. Housing-assistance contracts must require public housing agencies to provide the same information for people they know are not lawfully present.
Full Legal Text
Title 42, §1437y
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Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary shall, at least 4 times annually and upon request of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (hereafter in this section referred to as the “Service”), furnish the Service with the name and address of, and other identifying information on, any individual who the Secretary knows is not lawfully present in the United States, and shall ensure that each contract for assistance entered into under section 1437d or 1437f of this title with a public housing agency provides that the public housing agency shall furnish such information at such times with respect to any individual who the public housing agency knows is not lawfully present in the United States.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Codification Another section 27 of act Sept. 1, 1937, was renumbered section 28, and is classified to section 1437z of this title.
Amendments
1997—Pub. L. 105–33 substituted “not lawfully present in the United States” for “unlawfully in the United States” in two places.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
of 1997 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 105–33 effective as if included in the enactment of title IV of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, Pub. L. 104–193, see section 5582 of Pub. L. 105–33, set out as a note under section 1367 of Title 8, Aliens and Nationality. Abolition of Immigration and Naturalization Service and
Transfer of Functions
For abolition of Immigration and Naturalization Service,
Transfer of Functions
, and treatment of related references, see note set out under section 1551 of Title 8, Aliens and Nationality.
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Citation
42 U.S.C. § 1437y
Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102