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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Chapter 84 — Department of Energy

§ 7293. Agency terminations

Statutory text

Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, whenever all of the functions vested by law in any agency, commission, or other body, or any component thereof, have been terminated or transferred from that agency, commission, or other body, or component by this chapter, the agency, commission, or other body, or component, shall terminate. If an agency, commission, or other body, or any component thereof, terminates pursuant to the preceding sentence, each position and office therein which was expressly authorized by law, or the incumbent of which was authorized to receive compensation at the rates prescribed for an office or position at level II, III, IV, or V of the Executive Schedule (5 U.S.C. 5313–5316), shall terminate.

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.

  1. Department of Energy Organization Act

    Pub. L. 95–91 title VII § 703 · 91 Stat. 565

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 7293

    (Pub. L. 95–91, title VII, § 703, Aug. 4, 1977, 91 Stat. 606.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 95–91, title VII, § 703, Aug. 4, 1977, 91 Stat. 606.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 703. agency terminations Except as otherwise provided in this Act, whenever all of the functions vested by law in any agency, commission, or other body, or any component thereof, have been terminated or transferred from that agency, commission, or other body, or component by this Act, the agency, commission, or other body, or component, shall terminate. If an agency, commission, or other body, or any component thereof, terminates pursuant to the preceding sentence, each position and office therein which was expressly authorized by law, or the incumbent of which was authorized to receive compensation at the rates prescribed for an office or position at level II, III, IV, or V of the Executive Schedule (5 U.S.C. 5313–5316), shall terminate.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 95–91, , 91 Stat. 565, known as the Department of Energy Organization Act, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 7101 of this title and Tables.

Credits

(Pub. L. 95–91, title VII, § 703, , 91 Stat. 606.)

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