Repealed. Holding other lucrative office; employees of Department of Agriculture and Forest Service. Same: immigration officials. 69. Extra services. 73b. Traveling expenses limited to lowest first-class rate. 73b-1. Travel expenses of transferred employees; transportation of families, household goods and personal effects; employees excepted; reimbursement in lieu of payment; availability of funds. 73b-2. Travel expenses of consultants or experts; transportation of persons serving without compensation. 73b-3. Travel expenses of appointees; transportation of families, household goods and personal effects; vacation travel expenses; prior return of family; delegation of authority: expiration date; impairment of existing authority. 73b-4. Definitions. 73b-5. Payment or reimbursement of general average contributions in connection with transportation of effects; exceptions. 73c. Transportation of effects; automobiles. 73c-1. Repealed. 73c-2. Availability of appropriations for expenses of travel. 73d. Traveling expenses to and from Virgin Islands; transportation of bodies of deceased persons. 73e. Traveling expenses on inter-island steamships in Hawaii. 731. Travel expenses of officers and employees of the Department of the Interior to and from Alaska. 74, 75. Expenses for subsistence; traveling on duty. 77. 77a. 78. Restrictions on use of Government owned or leased (c) Maximum purchase price of vehicles; use (d) Appropriation estimates. (e) Definition of purchase. 78a. Same; Corps of Engineers. 78a-1. Same; maximum purchase price of motor vehicles; exceptions. 79. Same; river and harbor improvements. 111. 112. 113. 114. Time of making annual reports. Repealed. Manuscript of annual reports and accompanying documents. Repealed. Transfer of miscellaneous books to District Public Custody of files and records of war agencies. Prohibition of contributions or presents to superiors. Foreign decorations. 118a. Civilian officers and employees having permanent station in foreign countries; living quarters including heat, fuel, and light; allowances in lieu thereof. 118b. Payment in advance of subscription charges for periodicals, etc., for official use. 118c. Officers and employees in foreign countries; appropriations authorized to meet losses. 118c-1. Same; General and Lieutenant General of the Armies. 118d, 118e. Repealed. 1181. Native employees in foreign countries: last illness and burial expenses. 118g. Clothing and equipment for protection of personnel. 118h. Pay of personnel employed outside continental United States or in Alaska; regulations; effective date. 1181. Executive employees; use of official authority; political activity; penalties; reports to Congress. 118). Repealed. 1181-1. Federal employees; strikes against or overthrow of Government; penalties. 118k. Employees of State or local agencies financed by loans or grants from United States. (a) Influencing elections; officer or employee 118k-1. Activities of employees of educational and research institutions, etc. 118k-2. State defined. 118k-3. District of Columbia employees as employees of United States. 1181. 118n. Advertising practice before departments or offices of Government. Repealed. Activities prohibited on part of civil-service employees as prohibited on part of other Government and State employees. 118m. Political campaigns in localities where majority of voters are Government employees. Elections not specifically identified with National or State issues or political parties. Removal from office for soliciting or accepting political contributions. Second. The Department of Defense. Third. The Department of the Treasury. Sixth. The Department of the Interior. Tenth. The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. (R. S. § 158; Feb. 9, 1889, ch. 122, § 1, 25 Stat. 659; Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, § 1, 32 Stat. 825; Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, § 1, 37 Stat. 736; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, § 201 (c), as added Aug. 10, 1949, ch. 412, § 4, 63 Stat. 579; July 31, 1956, 5 p. m., E. D. T., ch. 802, § 1 (a), 70 Stat. 732.) REFERENCES IN TEXT This title, referred to in the text, refers to title IV of the Revised Statutes which is classified to sections 1-9, 22. 23-25, 33, 38, 43, 44, 48, 49, 51, 91, 93, 94, 95, 96, 99, 104, and 106 of this title. AMENDMENTS 1956-Act July 31, 1956, amended section to include the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. 1949-Act Aug. 10, 1949, amended section to remove the Departments of the Army, Navy and Air Force from the list of executive departments, and added the Department of Defense in lieu thereof. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE The Department of Defense was created by section 201 (a) of act July 26, 1947, as amended by act Aug. 10, 1949, and is set out as chapter 2A of this title. APPLICABILITY OF OTHER Laws to Department of HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE Section 1 (b) of act July 31, 1956, provided that: "The amendment made by subsection (a) of this section shall not be construed to make applicable to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare any provision of law inconsistent with Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1953 | set out as a note under section 623 of this title or Public Law 13, 83d Congress [section 623 of this title], or to supersede or limit any function or authority of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, or any officer thereof, under any law in effect prior to the enactment of this Act July 31, 1956], or prevent or limit the expenditure of funds for any such function or authority." CROSS REFERENCES Definition of department, see section 6 of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure. § 2. Word "department." The word "department" when used alone in this chapter, and chapters 2-11 of this title, means one of the executive departments enumerated in section 1 of this title. (R. S. § 159; Feb. 9, 1889, ch. 122, § 1, 25 Stat. 659; Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, § 1, 32 Stat. 825; Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, § 1, 37 Stat. 736.) § 3. Salaries of heads of executive departments. CODIFICATION Section, R. S. § 160; acts Feb. 26, 1907, ch. 1635, § 4, 34 Stat. 993; Mar. 4, 1925, ch. 549, § 4, 43 Stat. 1301; Oct. 15. 1949, ch. 695, § 1, 63 Stat. 880, is omitted from the Code. and is now covered by section 2201 of this title. § 4. Vacancies in office of department heads; temporarily filling. In case of the death, resignation, absence, or sickness of the head of any department, the first or sole assistant thereof shall, unless otherwise directed by the President, as provided by section 6 of this title. perform the duties of such head until a successor is appointed, or such absence or sickness shall cease. (R. S. § 177.) DERIVATION Act July 23, 1868. ch. 227, § 1, 15 Stat. 168 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 1953 Reorg. Plan No. 4, § 1 (a), eff. June 20, 1953, 18 F. R. 3577, set out as a note under section 291 of this title, provided that for the purposes of this section "the Deputy Attorney shall be deemed to be the first assistant of the Department of Justice." § 5. Vacancies in subordinate offices. In case of the death, resignation, absence, or sickness of the chief of any bureau, or of any officer thereof, whose appointment is not vested in the head of the department, the assistant or deputy of such chief or of such officer, or if there be none, then the chief clerk of such bureau, shall, unless otherwise directed by the President, as provided by section 6 of this title, perform the duties of such chief or of such officer until a successor is appointed or such absence or sickness shall cease. (R. S. § 178.) DERIVATION Act July 23, 1868. ch. 227. § 2, 15 Stat. 168 § 6. Discretionary authority of President as to vacancies. In any of the cases mentioned in sections 4 and 5 of this title except the death, resignation, absence, or sickness of the Attorney General, the President may, in his discretion, authorize and direct the head of any other department or any other officer in either department, whose appointment is vested in the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to perform the duties of the vacant office until a successor is appointed, or the sickness or absence of the incumbent shall cease. (R. S. § 179.) DERIVATION Act July 23, 1868, ch. 227. § 3, 15 Stat. 168; act June 22 1870, ch. 150. § 2. 16 Stat. 162. CROSS REFERENCES Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, order of succession to duties of, and applicability of this section. see sections 3017, 5036, and 8017 of Title 10, Armed Forces. EX ORD. No. 10332 Ex. Ord. 10332, Mar. 10, 1952, 17 F. R. 2083, which provided for the order of succession in the Department of Defense, was revoked by Ex. Ord. No. 10495, Oct. 15, 1953, 18 F. R. 6585, set out as a note under this section. Ex. ORD. No. 10495. ORDER OF SUCCESSION-DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE Ex. Ord. No. 10495, Oct. 15, 1953, 18 F. R. 6585, provided: PART I SUCCESSION TO THE POSITION OF SECRETARY OF DEFENSE In the event of the death, disability, or absence of the Secretary of Defense, the following designated officers, in the Department of Defense, shall succeed to the position of, and act as, Secretary of Defense in the order indicated: 1. Deputy Secretary of Defense. 2 Secretary of the Army. 3. Secretary of the Navy. 4. Secretary of the Air Force. 5. Assistant Secretaries of Defense and the General Counsel of the Department of Defense, in the order fixed by their length of service as such. 6. Under Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, in the order fixed by their length of service as such. 7. Assistant Secretaries of the Army, Navy and Air Force, in the order fixed by their length of service as such. |