§624 — Title 28 Judiciary and Judicial Procedure | U.S. Code

Summary

The Board can hire the Federal Judicial Center’s Director and Deputy Director, set their jobs, and remove them at any time. It can ask any department, agency, or independent government body for information it needs. Those parts of the government must cooperate and, as allowed by law, give the information to the Chairman or to the Director if the Board has given the Director that authority. The Board can also hire and pay government or private groups or people for research and other services without following section 6101(b) to (d) of title 41, and it can give that contracting power to the Director to use.

Title 28, §624

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The Board is authorized—

(1)to appoint and fix the duties of the Director and the Deputy Director of the Federal Judicial Center, who shall serve at the pleasure of the Board;

(2)to request from any department, agency, or independent instrumentality of the Government any information it deems necessary to the performance of the functions of the Federal Judicial Center set forth in this chapter, and each such department, agency, or instrumentality is directed to cooperate with the Board and, to the extent permitted by law, to furnish such information to the Center upon request of the Chairman or upon request of the Director when the Board has delegated this authority to him;

(3)to contract with and compensate government and private agencies or persons for research projects and other services, without regard to section 6101(b) to (d) of title 41, and to delegate such contract authority to the Director of the Federal Judicial Center, who is hereby empowered to exercise such delegated authority.

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Amendments

2011—Par. (3). Pub. L. 111–350 substituted “section 6101(b) to (d) of title 41” for “section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (41 U.S.C. 5)”. 1988—Par. (1). Pub. L. 100–702 inserted “and the Deputy Director” after “Director”.

§624 Powers of the Board

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Title 28, §624

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