§ 3501 Establishment of Department; effective date
§ 3501a Additional Assistant Secretaries
§ 3502 Assistant Secretary for Administration; appointment and duties
§ 3502a Administrator of Social and Rehabilitation Service; appointment and confirmation
§ 3504 General Counsel; appointment
§ 3505 Seal
§ 3505a Office of Population Affairs; establishment; Deputy Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs; appointment; staff and consultants
§ 3505b Functions and duties of Deputy Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs
§ 3505d National Health Professional Shortage Clearinghouse
§ 3506 Travel and subsistence expenses of officers and employees in connection with attendance at meetings or in performing advisory services
§ 3506a Scientific engagement
§ 3507 Transfer of personnel and household goods; delegation of Secretary’s authority
§ 3512 Office to assist small manufacturers of medical devices; establishment
§ 3513 Working capital fund; establishment; amount; use; reimbursement
§ 3513a Working capital fund; availability for centralized personnel data collection and reporting and common regional administrative support services
§ 3513b Working capital fund; availability for common personnel support services
§ 3514 Special account for grants of Department; reports
§ 3514a Nonrecurring expenses fund
§ 3515 Performance of one-year contracts during two fiscal years
§ 3515a Dedicated telephone service between employee residences and computer centers
§ 3515b Prohibition on funding certain experiments involving human participants
§ 3515c Offset against Federal payments to States for provision of services
§ 3515d Expenses of Office of Inspector General; protective services; investigating non-payment of child support
§ 3515e Transfer of functions regarding independent living to Department of Health and Human Services, and savings provisions
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Terms Used In U.S. Code > Title 42 > Chapter 43 > Subchapter I - General Provisions

  • Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • individual: shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. See 1 USC 8
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • officer: includes any person authorized by law to perform the duties of the office. See 1 USC 1
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • State: means a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any other territory or possession of the United States. See 1 USC 7