PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

The Council may hold meetings whenever and wherever it needs to do its work. With Council approval, any member or staff can carry out actions the Council is allowed to take. The Council can get information directly from federal agencies, and an agency head must provide it when the Council’s Chair asks. The Council can accept and use gifts or donations of money, services, or property from public or private sources with no fiscal-year limit. The Council may use the U.S. mail like other federal agencies.

Title 42, §11315

The Public Health and Welfare, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Meetings

For the purpose of carrying out this subchapter, the Council may hold such meetings, and sit and act at such times and places, as the Council considers appropriate.

(b)Delegation

Any member or employee of the Council may, if authorized by the Council, take any action that the Council is authorized to take in this subchapter.

(c)Information

The Council may secure directly from any Federal agency such information as may be necessary to enable the Council to carry out this subchapter. Upon request of the Chairperson of the Council, the head of such agency shall furnish such information to the Council.

(d)Donations

The Council may accept, use, and dispose of gifts or donations of services or property, both real and personal, public and private, without fiscal year limitation, for the purpose of aiding or facilitating the work of the Council.

(e)Mails

The Council may use the United States mails in the same manner and under the same conditions as other Federal agencies.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2009—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 111–22 substituted “property, both real and personal, public and private, without fiscal year limitation, for the purpose of aiding or facilitating the work of the Council.” for “property.”

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2009 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 111–22 effective on, and applicable beginning on, May 20, 2009, see section 1004(b) of Pub. L. 111–22, set out as a note under section 11311 of this title.

§11315 Powers