Providing an Order of Succession Within the Department of Housing and Urban Development
Signed December 18, 2001·George W. Bush·66 FR 66262
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Sets the order in which officials at the Department of Housing and Urban Development act as Secretary if both the Secretary and Deputy Secretary die, resign, or otherwise cannot perform the duties of the office. Lists the General Counsel followed by the Assistant Secretaries for Housing-Federal Housing Commission, Community Planning and Development, Public and Indian Housing, Policy Development and Research, Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations, Administration, and Public Affairs, in that order. Specifies that anyone already serving in one of these listed positions only in an acting capacity cannot become acting Secretary under this order, and confirms the President retains discretion to depart from this succession order when permitted by law. Revokes an earlier order, Executive Order 11274 of March 30, 1996, which had previously addressed the same subject.
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including Subchapter III of Chapter 33 of title 5 of the United States Code, it is hereby ordered
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Disposition
Revokes: EO 11274, March 30, 1966; Amended by: EO 13261, March 19, 2002
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The order, in full
Executive Order 13243 of December 18, 2001
Providing an Order of Succession Within the
Department of Housing and Urban Development
By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States of
America, including Subchapter III of Chapter 33 of
title 5 of the United States Code, it is hereby ordered
that:
Section 1. Subject to the provisions of section 3 of
this Executive Order, the officers named in section 2,
in the order listed, shall act as and perform the
functions and duties of the office of Secretary of
Housing and Urban Development (Secretary) during any
period when both the Secretary and the Deputy Secretary
of Housing and Urban Development (Deputy Secretary)
have died, resigned, or are otherwise unable to perform
the functions and duties of the office of Secretary.
Sec. 2. Order of Succession.
(a) General Counsel of the Department of Housing
and Urban Development;
(b) Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development in charge of Housing-Federal Housing
Commission;
(c) Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development in charge of Community, Planning and
Development;
(d) Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development in charge of Public and Indian Housing;
(e) Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development in charge of Policy Development and
Research;
(f) Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development in charge of Fair Housing and Equal
Opportunity;
(g) Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development in charge of Congressional and
Intergovernmental Relations;
(h) Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development in charge of Administration; and
(i) Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development in charge of Public Affairs.
Sec. 3. Exceptions.
(a) No individual who is serving in an office
listed in section 2(a)-(i) in an acting capacity shall
act as Secretary pursuant to this Executive Order.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of this
Executive Order, the President retains discretion, to
the extent permitted by Subchapter III of Chapter 33 of
title 5 of the United States Code, to depart from this
Executive Order in designating an acting Secretary.
Sec. 4. Executive Order 11274 of March 30, 1996, is
hereby revoked.
(Presidential Sig.)B
THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 18, 2001.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed December 18, 2001. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.