Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 43 — Department of Health and Human Services
§ 3504. General Counsel; appointment
Statutory text
The President shall appoint on and after , by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a General Counsel of the Department of Health and Human Services.
The existing office of General Counsel of the Department of Health and Human Services shall be abolished effective upon the appointment and qualification of the General Counsel provided for by subsection (a) or , whichever is earlier.
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. 84–804 · 70 Stat. 656
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 3504
July 31, 1956, ch. 804, title III, § 301, 70 Stat. 742
Source evidence
Code source credit
July 31, 1956, ch. 804, title III, § 301, 70 Stat. 742
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section is based on that part of section 301 of act , relating to the General Counsel of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare [now Health and Human Services]. That part of such section 301 relating to the General Counsel of the Department of Agriculture, is classified to section 2214 of Title 7, Agriculture. That part of such section 301 relating to the General Counsel of the Post Office Department was enacted as section 307 of Title 39 by Pub. L. 86–682, , 74 Stat. 580. Such provisions were eliminated from Title 39 by the Postal Reorganization Act, Pub. L. 91–375, , 84 Stat. 719.
Section was formerly classified to section 623c of former Title 5, Executive Departments and Government Officers and Employees, prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, by Pub. L. 89–554, § 1, , 80 Stat. 378.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
“Department of Health and Human Services” substituted in text for “Department of Health, Education, and Welfare” pursuant to section 509(b) of Pub. L. 96–88, which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education.
Credits
1956–1979 · 2 acts
- 1956July 31, 1956, ch. 804, title III, § 301, 70 Stat. 742
- 1979Pub. L. 96–88, title V, § 509(b), , 93 Stat. 695.
Show as published
(July 31, 1956, ch. 804, title III, § 301, 70 Stat. 742; Pub. L. 96–88, title V, § 509(b), , 93 Stat. 695.)