Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73
§7293 Agency terminations
Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 84— - DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER VII— - TRANSITIONAL, SAVINGS, AND CONFORMING PROVISIONS › § 7293
Summary
If under this chapter an agency's legal duties are all ended or moved to someone else, the agency must end. Unless this chapter says otherwise, any job or office the law created, or any job paid at Executive Schedule levels II, III, IV, or V (5 U.S.C. 5313–5316), must also end.
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Title 42, §7293
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Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, whenever all of the functions vested by law in any agency, commission, or other body, or any component thereof, have been terminated or transferred from that agency, commission, or other body, or component by this chapter, the agency, commission, or other body, or component, shall terminate. If an agency, commission, or other body, or any component thereof, terminates pursuant to the preceding sentence, each position and office therein which was expressly authorized by law, or the incumbent of which was authorized to receive compensation at the rates prescribed for an office or position at level II, III, IV, or V of the Executive Schedule (5 U.S.C. 5313–5316), shall terminate.
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This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 95–91, Aug. 4, 1977, 91 Stat. 565, known as the Department of Energy Organization Act, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see
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note set out under section 7101 of this title and Tables.
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42 U.S.C. § 7293
Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73