Amendment to Executive Order No. 11880
Signed April 5, 1996·William J. Clinton·61 FR 15873
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Plain-language summary
Amends Executive Order 11880, which sets the order of succession for the Secretary of Commerce, by adding a new section stating that the President may, at any time and consistent with law, designate any officer covered under title 5, section 3347 of the United States Code to act as Secretary of Commerce, regardless of the succession order otherwise established in that order. The existing section 2 of Executive Order 11880 is renumbered as section 3 to accommodate the new provision.
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Claimed authority
By virtue of the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, including section 3347 of title 5, United States Code, it is hereby ordered
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Disposition
Amends: EO 11880, October 2, 1975;; ; Revoked by: EO 13242, December 18, 2001
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The order, in full
Executive Order 12998 of April 5, 1996
Amendment to Executive Order No. 11880
By virtue of the authority vested in me as President
by the Constitution and laws of the United States of
America, including section 3347 of title 5, United
States Code, it is hereby ordered that Executive Order
No. 11880 of October 2, 1975, as amended, is further
amended as follows:
A new section 2 of Executive Order No. 11880 shall be
added to read: “The President may at any time,
pursuant to law but without regard to the foregoing
provisions of this order, direct that an officer, as
defined in 5 U.S.C. 3347, and specified by the
President shall act as Secretary of Commerce.”
The present section 2 of Executive Order No. 11880, as
amended, shall be redesignated as section 3.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
April 5, 1996.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed April 5, 1996. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.