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Title 13 — CensusRelease 119-73

§25 Duties of supervisors, enumerators, and other employees

Title 13 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - ADMINISTRATION › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › § 25

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Supervisors must carry out the tasks the Secretary assigns to enforce chapter 5 and follow the Secretary’s instructions. Enumerators must gather the facts and statistics asked for on the forms the Secretary provides for their area.

Full Legal Text

Title 13, §25

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(a)Each supervisor shall perform the duties imposed upon him by the Secretary in the enforcement of chapter 5 of this title in accordance with the Secretary’s orders and instructions.
(b)Each enumerator or other employee detailed to serve as enumerator shall be charged with the collection in his subdivision of the facts and statistics called for on such schedules as the Secretary determines shall be used by him in connection with any census or survey provided for by chapter 5 of this title.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 13, U.S.C., 1952 ed., §§ 122, 205, and section 1442 of title 42, U.S.C., 1952 ed., The Public Health and Welfare (
June 18, 1929, ch. 28, § 5, 46 Stat. 22;
June 19, 1948, ch. 502, § 2, 62 Stat. 479;
July 15, 1949, ch. 338, title VI, § 607, 63 Stat. 441). Section consolidates section 205 of title 13, U.S.C., 1952 ed., with that part of section 122 of such title which made such section 205 applicable to the surveys provided for by section 121 of such title (see subchapter IV of chapter 5), and with that part of subsection (b) of section 1442 of title 42, U.S.C., 1952 ed., which made such section 205 applicable to the censuses of housing. References to the Secretary, meaning the Secretary of Commerce, were substituted for references to the Director of the Census, to conform with 1950 Reorganization Plan No. 5, §§ 1, 2, eff.
May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1263. See Revision Note to section 4 of this title. Changes were made in phraseology and arrangement.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1964—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 88–530 repealed subsec. (c) which related to duties of enumerators in Bureau of the Census.

Reference

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Citation

13 U.S.C. § 25

Title 13 — Census

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73