Title 6 — Domestic Security
Part B · Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization
§ 555. Continuity of Inspector General oversight
Statutory text
Notwithstanding the transfer of an agency to the Department pursuant to this chapter, the Inspector General that exercised oversight of such agency prior to such transfer shall continue to exercise oversight of such agency during the period of time, if any, between the transfer of such agency to the Department pursuant to this chapter and the appointment of the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security in accordance with section 113(b) of this title.
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.
Homeland Security Act of 2002
Pub. L. 107–296 title XV § 1515 · 116 Stat. 2135
Enacted · 6 U.S.C. § 555
(Pub. L. 107–296, title XV, § 1515, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2311.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 107–296, title XV, § 1515, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2311.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 1515. CONTINUITY OF INSPECTOR GENERAL OVERSIGHT. Notwithstanding the transfer of an agency to the Department pursuant to this Act, the Inspector General that exercised oversight of such agency prior to such transfer shall continue to exercise oversight of such agency during the period of time, if any, between the transfer of such agency to the Department pursuant to this Act and the appointment of the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security in accordance with section 103(b).
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Editorial Notes
References in Text
This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 107–296, , 116 Stat. 2135, known as the Homeland Security Act of 2002, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 101 of this title and Tables.