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Title 5 of the United States Code

Title 5 of the United States Code is a positive law title of the United States Code with the heading "Government Organization And Employees".[1]

Provisions[edit]

Title 5 contains organizational and administrative provisions directing the federal government, including the Freedom of Information Act, Privacy Act of 1974, the Congressional Review Act as well as authorization for government reorganizations such as Reorganization Plan No. 3. The title also contains various federal employee and civil service laws of the United States, including authorization for the Office of Personnel Management and the General Salary Schedule and Executive Schedule classification systems. It also is the Title that specifies Federal holidays (5 U.S.C. § 6103). In addition, there is an appendix to Title 5 but it is not itself considered positive law. It contains reorganization plans.[2]

History[edit]

On September 6, 1966, Title 5 was enacted as positive law by Pub. L. 89–554 (80 Stat. 378). Prior to the 1966 positive law recodification, Title 5 had the heading, "Executive Departments and Government Officers and Employees."[3]


In 2022, Congress moved the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Inspector General Act of 1978, and the Ethics in Government Act from the Title 5 Appendix to Title 5 itself.[4]

—Organization

Chapter 1

—Powers

Chapter 3

—Inspectors General

Chapter 4

—Administrative Procedure

Chapter 5

—The Analysis of Regulatory Functions

Chapter 6

—Judicial Review

Chapter 7

—Congressional Review of Agency Rulemaking

Chapter 8

—Executive Reorganization

Chapter 9

—Federal Advisory Committees

Chapter 10

—Office of Personnel Management

Chapter 11

—Merit Systems Protection Board, Office of Special Counsel, and Employee Right of Action

Chapter 12

—Special Authority

Chapter 13

—Agency Chief Human Capital Officers

Chapter 14

—Political Activity of Certain State and Local Employees

Chapter 15

Subpart A

Chapter 21

Subpart B

Chapter 31

Subpart C

Chapter 41

Subpart D

Chapter 51

Subpart E

Chapter 61

Subpart F

Chapter 71

Subpart G

Chapter 81

Subpart H

Chapter 91

Subpart I

Chapter 95

Subpart J

Chapter 110

—Ethics in Government

Chapter 131

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U.S. Code Title 5

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