§904 — Title 5 Government Organization and Employees | U.S. Code

Summary

When the President sends a reorganization plan, it may change an agency’s name and its head’s title (subject to section 905) and must name any new agency and its head. The plan may set appointment and pay for the head and other officers if the President finds that necessary and says so when sending the plan. It must explain how records, property, and staff will be moved, how unspent appropriations and other funds needed will be transferred, and how to close an abolished agency.

Title 5, §904

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A reorganization plan transmitted by the President under section 903 of this title—

(1)may, subject to section 905, change, in such cases as the President considers necessary, the name of an agency affected by a reorganization and the title of its head, and shall designate the name of an agency resulting from a reorganization and the title of its head;

(2)may provide for the appointment and pay of the head and one or more officers of any agency (including an agency resulting from a consolidation or other type of reorganization) if the President finds, and in his message transmitting the plan declares, that by reason of a reorganization made by the plan the provisions are necessary;

(3)shall provide for the transfer or other disposition of the records, property, and personnel affected by a reorganization;

(4)shall provide for the transfer of such unexpended balances of appropriations, and of other funds, available for use in connection with a function or agency affected by a reorganization, as the President considers necessary by reason of the reorganization for use in connection with the functions affected by the reorganization, or for the use of the agency which shall have the functions after the reorganization plan is effective; and

(5)shall provide for terminating the affairs of an agency abolished.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

DerivationU.S. CodeRevised Statutes andStatutes at Large 5 U.S.C. 133z–2.June 20, 1949, ch. 226, § 4, 63 Stat. 204. In paragraph (1), the words “may change” are substituted for “shall change” in view of the discretionary grant of authority reflected by the words “in such cases as the President considers necessary”. In paragraph (2), the words “competitive service” are substituted for “classified civil service” to conform to the definition in section 2102. Standard changes are made to conform with the definitions applicable and the style of this title as outlined in the preface to the report.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1984—Par. (1). Pub. L. 98–614 inserted “, subject to section 905,”. 1977—Pub. L. 95–17 struck out in provisions following par. (5) exception that, in the case of an officer of the government of the District of Columbia, the appointment of the head of an agency may be by the Commissioner or other body of that government designated in the plan. 1971—Pub. L. 92–179 revised the form of the provisions covering the elements which a reorganization plan contains by moving provisions formerly set out in par. (2) to a position following par. (5).

§904 Additional contents of reorganization plan