18-U.S.C.-6
§6 – Department and Agency Defined
Pathway
Title 18 > Part I > Chapter 1 > Section 6
Details
- Reference: Section 6
- Legend: §6 – Department and Agency Defined
- USCode Year: 2013
Provision Content
As used in this title:
The term department means one of the executive departments enumerated in section 1 of Title 5, unless the context shows that such term was intended to describe the executive, legislative, or judicial branches of the government.
The term agency includes any department, independent establishment, commission, administration, authority, board or bureau of the United States or any corporation in which the United States has a proprietary interest, unless the context shows that such term was intended to be used in a more limited sense.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 685.)
Historical and Revision Notes
This section defines the terms department and agency of the United States. The word department appears 57 times in title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., and the word agency 14 times. It was considered necessary to define clearly these words in order to avoid possible litigation as to the scope or coverage of a given section containing such words. (See United States v. Germaine, 1878, 99 U.S. 508, 25 L. Ed. 482, for definition of words department or head of department.)
The phrase corporation in which the United States has a proprietary interest is intended to include those governmental corporations in which stock is not actually issued, as well as those in which stock is owned by the United States. It excludes those corporations in which the interest of the Government is custodial or incidental.
References in Text
Section 1 of Title 5, referred to in text, was repealed by Pub. L. 89–554, §8, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 632, and reenacted by the first section thereof as section 101 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
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