§514. General provisions

(a) Promulgation of policies

The President may prescribe such policies, not inconsistent with the provisions of this subchapter, as he shall deem necessary to effectuate the provisions of this subchapter, which provisions shall guide each executive agency in carrying out its functions hereunder.

(b) Delegation of authority

Any authority conferred upon any executive agency or the head thereof by the provisions of this subchapter may be delegated, and successive redelegation thereof may be authorized, by such head to any official in such agency or to the head of any other executive agency.

(c) Employment of personnel

The head of each executive agency responsible for the disposal of foreign excess property hereunder may, as may be necessary to carry out his functions under this subchapter, (1) subject to the civil-service and classification laws, appoint and fix the compensation of personnel, and (2) without regard to the civil-service laws, appoint personnel outside the States of the Union and the District of Columbia.

(d) Transfer of functions

There shall be transferred from the Department of State to each other executive agency affected by this subchapter such records, property, personnel, obligations, commitments, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds, available or to be made available, as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall determine to relate to functions of such agency under this subchapter which have heretofore been administered by the Department of State.

(June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title IV, §404, 63 Stat. 398 ; Pub. L. 86–624, §27(c), July 12, 1960, 74 Stat. 418 ; 1970 Reorg. Plan No. 2, §102, eff. July 1, 1970, 35 F.R. 7959, 84 Stat. 2085; Pub. L. 96–470, title I, §101(a), Oct. 19, 1980, 94 Stat. 2237 .)

References in Text

The civil-service laws, referred to in subsec. (c), are set forth in Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. See, particularly, section 3301 et seq. of Title 5.

The classification laws, referred to in subsec. (c), are classified generally to chapter 51 (§5101 et seq.) and to subchapter III (§5331 et seq.) of chapter 53 of Title 5.

Codification

Provisions of subsec. (c)(2) of this section, which authorized heads of executive agencies to fix the compensation of personnel outside the continental limits of the United States without regard to the classification laws, were omitted as obsolete and superseded. Sections 1202 and 1204 of the Classification Act of 1949, 63 Stat. 972, 973, repealed the Classification Act of 1923 and all other laws or parts of laws inconsistent with the 1949 Act. The Classification Act of 1949 was repealed by Pub. L. 89–554, Sept. 6, 1966, §8(a), 80 Stat. 632 , and reenacted as chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. Section 5102 of Title 5 contains the applicability provisions of the 1949 Act, and section 5103 of Title 5 authorizes the Office of Personnel Management to determine the applicability to specific positions and employees.

Amendments

1980-Subsecs. (d), (e). Pub. L. 96–470 struck out subsec. (d) which provided that head of each executive agency responsible for disposal of foreign excess property under this subchapter submit a report to Congress in January of each year, or at such other desirable times, relative to its activities under this subchapter, accompanied by appropriate recommendations, and redesignated subsec. (e) as (d).

1960-Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 86–624 substituted "States of the Union and the District of Columbia" for "continental limits of the United States".

Transfer of Functions

Functions by law (including reorganization plan) in Bureau of the Budget or Director of Bureau of the Budget transferred to President of the United States by section 101 of Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1970, eff. July 1, 1970, 35 F.R. 7959, 84 Stat. 2085, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. Section 102 of Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1970, redesignated Bureau of the Budget as Office of Management and Budget.