Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-102
§2664 Distribution of Duties of Officers, Clerks, and Employees
Title 22 › CHAPTER 38 — DEPARTMENT OF STATE › § 2664
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The Secretary of State can assign work and job duties to Assistant Secretaries, bureau clerks, and all other department employees. He can also change those duties or move people to different jobs whenever he thinks it is necessary.
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Title 22, §2664
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The Secretary of State may prescribe duties for the Assistant Secretaries and the clerks of bureaus, as well as for all the other employees in the department, and may make changes and transfers therein when, in his judgment, it becomes necessary.
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Codification Section was formerly classified to section 154 of Title 5 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, by Pub. L. 89–554, § 1, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 378. Provisions of this section which related to the Solicitor of the Department were omitted in view of act May 24, 1924, which abolished the office.
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22 U.S.C. § 2664
Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102