Half-Day Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies on Thursday, December 24, 2009
Signed December 11, 2009·Barack Obama·74 FR 66563
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Plain-language summary
Directs executive branch departments and agencies to close, and excuses their employees from duty, for the second half of the scheduled workday on Thursday, December 24, 2009. Allows the heads of departments and agencies to keep certain offices or employees on duty for the full day if needed for national security, defense, or other public purposes. Specifies that the half-day falls under the pay and leave provisions of Executive Order 11582 and related federal statutes governing employee compensation. States that the order does not create any legally enforceable rights or benefits against the United States or its officials.
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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered
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Federal Register correction page and date: 74 FR 67049, December 18, 2009
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The order, in full
Executive Order 15323 of December 11, 2009
Half-Day Closing of Executive Departments and
Agencies on Thursday, December 24, 2009
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 branch 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 Thursday, December 24, 2009,
the day before Christmas Day, except as provided in
section 2 of this order.
Sec. 2. The heads of executive branch 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,
2009, for reasons of national security, defense, or
other public need.
Sec. 3. Thursday, December 24, 2009, shall be
considered as falling within the scope of Executive
Order 11582 of February 11, 1971, 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 is not intended to, and does not,
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party against
the United States, its departments, agencies, or
entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any
other person.
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
December 11, 2009.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed December 11, 2009. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.