25 USC § 5344 - Rules and regulations; minimum standards of service

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identifier: "/us/usc/t25/s5344"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "25 USC § 5344 - Rules and regulations; minimum standards of service"
title_number: 25
title_name: "INDIANS"
section_number: "5344"
section_name: "Rules and regulations; minimum standards of service"
chapter_number: 46
chapter_name: "INDIAN SELF-DETERMINATION AND EDUCATION ASSISTANCE"
subchapter_number: "II"
subchapter_name: "CONTRACTS WITH STATES"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2025-07-14"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Apr. 16, 1934, ch. 147, § 3, 48 Stat. 596; June 4, 1936, ch. 490, § 3, 49 Stat. 1459.)"
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# § 5344. Rules and regulations; minimum standards of service

*Provided*

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to perform any and all acts and to make such rules and regulations, including minimum standards of service, as may be necessary and proper for the purpose of carrying the provisions of sections 5342 to 5348 of this title into effect: , That such minimum standards of service are not less than the highest maintained by the States or Territories within which said contract or contracts, as herein provided, are to be effective.

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**Source Credit**: (Apr. 16, 1934, ch. 147, § 3, 48 Stat. 596; June 4, 1936, ch. 490, § 3, 49 Stat. 1459.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to  prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Amendments

1936—Act , substituted “within which” for “with which”.