Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Chapter 40 — Department of Commerce
§ 1509. Designation of officer to sign routine papers
Statutory text
The Secretary may designate an officer of the Department to sign minor routine official papers and documents during the temporary absence of the Secretary, the Under Secretary, and the Assistant Secretaries of the Department.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 79–129 · 59 Stat. 169
Enacted · 15 U.S.C. § 1509
May 21, 1945, ch. 129, title III, § 301, 59 Stat. 188
Source evidence
Code source credit
May 21, 1945, ch. 129, title III, § 301, 59 Stat. 188
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Codification
Assistant Secretary changed to Assistant Secretaries by act , which provided for an additional Assistant Secretary. See section 1505 of this title.
Section was formerly classified to section 593a of Title 5 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, by Pub. L. 89–554, , 80 Stat. 378.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of Commerce, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of Commerce, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 5 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. , 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1263, set out as a note under section 1501 of this title.
Credits
1945–1947 · 2 acts
- 1945May 21, 1945, ch. 129, title III, § 301, 59 Stat. 188
- 1947July 15, 1947, ch. 251, 61 Stat. 326.
Show as published
(May 21, 1945, ch. 129, title III, § 301, 59 Stat. 188; July 15, 1947, ch. 251, 61 Stat. 326.)