5 U.S.C. § 301 — Departmental regulations
submitted 60 years ago by Pub. L. 89-554 to r/title-5-GOVERNMENT-ORGANIZATION-AND-EMPLOYEES · 61 words · no verdicts yet
The head of a federal executive or military department can set rules for running the department. These rules can cover how employees behave, how work gets done, and how records are kept. But these rules cannot be used to hide information from the public.
The head of an Executive department or a military department may write regulations to govern that department. These regulations can cover: how the department is run, how its employees must conduct themselves, how the department's work gets assigned and carried out, and how the department keeps, uses, and protects its records, papers, and property.
This power has one important limit: it does not let the department head withhold information from the public, or make department records harder for the public to get.
The head of an Executive department or military department may prescribe regulations for the government of his department, the conduct of its employees, the distribution and performance of its business, and the custody, use, and preservation of its records, papers, and property. This section does not authorize withholding information from the public or limiting the availability of records to the public.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 89–554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 379.)
- 1966Enacted · Pub. L. 89-554 · 80 Stat. 379
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 89-554 on 1966-09-06.
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