Half-Day Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on Thursday, December 24, 1998
Signed December 17, 1998·William J. Clinton·63 FR 70631
Source
Everything on this page is drawn from the Federal Register, the official daily journal of the United States government. Where this page and the source disagree, the source governs.
Plain-language summary
Closes federal executive departments and agencies for the second half of the scheduled workday on Thursday, December 24, 1998, excusing employees from duty during that time. Allows heads of departments and agencies to keep certain offices, installations, or employees on duty for the full day if needed for national security, defense, or other essential public reasons. Specifies that the day is treated as falling under Executive Order 11582 and related federal pay and leave statutes for purposes of employee compensation. Applies only to federal executive departments and agencies, not to state or local government offices.
Not written or reviewed by a person. Read the full order below for anything you intend to rely on.
Report a problem with this summary
Legal standing
Not yet published. Court challenges, injunctions and rulings tied to individual orders will appear here once each can be linked to its source record.
Nothing appears in this space without a citation to a court action or a cited precedent. An order with no such record is described as untested, never as likely or unlikely to survive.
Claimed authority
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered
Quoted from the order as written. Many orders cite nothing more specific than “the Constitution and the laws”; this reproduces what the order claims, not an assessment of whether it holds.
The order, in full
Executive Order 13109 of December 17, 1998
Half-Day Closing of Executive Departments and
Agencies of the Federal Government on Thursday,
December 24, 1998
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. All executive departments and agencies of
the Federal Government shall be closed and their
employees excused from duty for the last half of the
scheduled workday on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1998,
except as provided in section 2 below.
Sec. 2. The heads of executive departments and agencies
may determine that certain offices and installations of
their organizations, or parts thereof, must remain open
and that certain employees must remain on duty for the
full scheduled workday on December 24, 1998, for
reasons of national security or defense or for other
essential public reasons.
Sec. 3. Thursday, December 24, 1998, shall be
considered as falling within the scope of Executive
Order 11582 and of 5 U.S.C. 5546 and 6103(b) and other
similar statutes insofar as they relate to the pay and
leave of employees of the United States.
Sec. 4. This order shall apply to executive departments
and agencies of the Federal Government only and is not
intended to direct or otherwise implicate departments
or agencies of State or local governments.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 17, 1998.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed December 17, 1998. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.