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Title 15, Commerce and TradeRelease 119-102

§1513 Duties and Powers Vested in Department

Title 15 › CHAPTER 40 — DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE › § 1513

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Commerce must perform every duty and use every power that was moved into the Department of Commerce from other executive departments. This covers any public service unit (for example, a bureau, office, board, or division) and includes powers to decide, review, or change matters tied to those duties.

Full Legal Text

Title 15, §1513

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All duties performed and all power and authority possessed or exercised by the head of any executive department in and over any bureau, office, officer, board, branch, or division of the public service transferred to the Department of Commerce, or any business arising therefrom or pertaining thereto, or in relation to the duties performed by and authority conferred by law upon such bureau, officer, office, board, branch, or division of the public service, whether of an appellate or revisory character or otherwise, shall be vested in and exercised by the Secretary of Commerce.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 599 of Title 5 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, by Pub. L. 89–554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 378.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Act Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, 37 Stat. 736, provided that the Department of Commerce and Labor and Secretary of Commerce and Labor were to be thereafter called the Department of Commerce and Secretary of Commerce and that the act creating the Department of Commerce and Labor (act Feb. 14, 1903) was amended accordingly. Government Interest in PatentsFor duties and powers of Secretary of Commerce with respect to interest of Government in patents, see executive orders set out as notes under section 266 of Title 35, Patents.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

For

Transfer of Functions

of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of Commerce, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of Commerce, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 5 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1263, set out as a note under section 1501 of this title.

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Citations & Metadata

Citation

15 U.S.C. § 1513

Title 15, Commerce and Trade

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102