Title 15 — Commerce and TradeRelease 119-73
§1547 Rules and regulations; employees
Title 15 › Chapter CHAPTER 40— - DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE › § 1547
Summary
Gives the Secretary of Commerce the power to create, change, or cancel rules needed to carry out sections 1544–1548, and to accept donations or other contributions to help do that work. It also allows hiring one special assistant and up to five artists and illustrators under regular federal hiring rules.
Full Legal Text
Title 15, §1547
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(a)To prescribe, amend, and repeal such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary, and to accept contributions for carrying out the purposes of said sections; and
(b)To employ, subject to chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5, one special assistant and not to exceed five artists and illustrators.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Codification Section was formerly classified to section 18c of Title 16, Conservation. Provisions of par. (b) authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to employ “without regard to the civil-service laws” were omitted as such employment is subject to the civil service laws unless specifically excepted by those laws or by laws enacted subsequent to Executive Order 8743, Apr. 23, 1941, issued by the President pursuant to the Act of Nov. 26, 1940, ch. 919, title I, § 1, 54 Stat. 1211, which covered most excepted positions into the classified (competitive) civil service. The Order is set out as a note under section 3301 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. “Chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5” substituted in par. (b) for “the Classification Act of 1949, as amended” on authority of Pub. L. 89–554, § 7(b), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 631, the first section of which enacted Title 5.
Amendments
1949—Par. (b). Act Oct. 28, 1949, substituted “Classification Act of 1949” for “Classification Act of 1923”.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Repeals
Act Oct. 28, 1949, ch. 782, cited as a credit to this section, was repealed (subject to a savings clause) by Pub. L. 89–554, Sept. 6, 1966, § 8, 80 Stat. 632, 655.
Transfer of Functions
Secretary of Commerce substituted for Secretary of the Interior in view of
Transfer of Functions
to Secretary of Commerce from Secretary of the Interior by section 2 of Pub. L. 93–193. See
Transfer of Functions
note set out under section 1544 of this title.
Reference
Citations & Metadata
Citation
15 U.S.C. § 1547
Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73