---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 43"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "43"
heading: "Office and place of meeting"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/43"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — Federal Trade Commission; Promotion of Export Trade and Prevention of Unfair Methods of Competition"
  - "Subchapter I — Federal Trade Commission"
---

# §43. Office and place of meeting


The principal office of the [Commission](/usc/15/78c.md?p=a-15) shall be in the city of Washington, but it may meet and exercise all its powers at any other place. The [Commission](/usc/15/78c.md?p=a-15) may, by one or more of its members, or by such examiners as it may designate, prosecute any inquiry necessary to its duties in any part of the United States.


## Source credit

(Sept. 26, 1914, ch. 311, § 3, 38 Stat. 719.)

## Notes

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

For transfer of functions of Federal Trade Commission, with certain exceptions, to Chairman of such Commission, see Reorg. Plan No. 8 of 1950, § 1, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3175, 64 Stat. 1264, set out under section 41 of this title.