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§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

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must give the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) the name, address, and other identifying details of anyone the Secretary knows is not legally in the United States. This must happen at least 4 times a year and whenever the INS asks. The Secretary must also require that every federal public housing assistance contract with a public housing agency makes the agency give the same information, at the same times, about anyone the agency knows is not legally in the United States.

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.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

42 U.S.C. § 1437y

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

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