Title 20 — Education
Part B · Chapter 48 — Department of Education
§ 3471. General authority
Statutory text
Force and effect of actions by Secretary
In carrying out any function transferred by this chapter, the Secretary, or any officer or employee of the Department, may exercise any authority available by law (including appropriation Acts) with respect to such function to the official or agency from which such function is transferred, and the actions of the Secretary in exercising such authority shall have the same force and effect as when exercised by such official or agency.
Reporting requirements
The director of any office continued in the Department the director of which was required, prior to , to report to the Commissioner of Education or the Assistant Secretary for Education of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, shall report to the Secretary.
The Secretary is authorized to delegate reporting requirements vested in the Secretary by paragraph (1) to any officer or employee 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.
Department of Education Organization Act
Pub. L. 96–88 title IV § 411 · 93 Stat. 668
Enacted · 20 U.S.C. § 3471
(Pub. L. 96–88, title IV, § 411, Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 683.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 96–88, title IV, § 411, Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 683.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 411. general authority (a) In carrying out any function transferred by this Act, 20 USC 3471. the Secretary, or any officer or employee of the Department, may exercise any authority available by law (including appropriation Acts) with respect to such function to the official or agency from which such function is transferred, and the actions of the Secretary in exercising such authority shall have the same force and effect as when exercised by such official or agency. (b) (1) The director of any office continued in the Department the director of which was required, prior to the effective date of this Act, to report to the Commissioner of Education or the Assistant Secretary for Education of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, shall report to the Secretary. (2) The Secretary is authorized to delegate reporting requirements vested in the Secretary by paragraph (1) to any officer or employee of the Department.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
In subsec. (b)(1), “” substituted for “the effective date of this chapter” pursuant to section 601 of Pub. L. 96–88, set out as an Effective Date note under section 3401 of this title.