Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 7 — Social Security
§ 913. Duties and authority of Secretary
Statutory text
The Secretary shall perform the duties imposed upon the Secretary by this chapter. The Secretary is authorized to appoint and fix the compensation of such officers and employees, and to make such expenditures as may be necessary for carrying out the functions of the Secretary under this chapter. The Secretary may appoint attorneys and experts without regard to the civil service laws.
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. 103–296 title I § 108(a)(1) · 108 Stat. 1464
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 913
(Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title VII, § 712, as added Pub. L. 103–296, title I, § 108(a)(1), Aug. 15, 1994, 108 Stat. 1481.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title VII, § 712, as added Pub. L. 103–296, title I, § 108(a)(1), Aug. 15, 1994, 108 Stat. 1481.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(1) Title VII of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 901 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section:
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title VII, § 712, as added Pub. L. 103–296, title I, § 108(a)(1), , 108 Stat. 1481.)