Providing for the Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on December 5, 2018
Signed December 1, 2018·Donald Trump·83 FR 62687
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Closes all executive departments and agencies of the federal government on December 5, 2018, as a mark of respect for George Herbert Walker Bush, the forty-first President. Allows agency heads to determine that certain offices, installations, or employees must remain operational or report for duty that day for reasons of national security, defense, or other public need. Specifies that the closure day falls under Executive Order 11582 and related federal pay and leave statutes governing employee compensation. Directs the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to take actions necessary to implement the order. States that implementation must be consistent with applicable law and available appropriations, does not affect existing statutory authority of agencies or the Office of Management and Budget's budgetary functions, and creates no enforceable legal rights against the government.
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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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Disposition
See: EO 11582, February 11, 1971
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Executive Order 13852 of December 1, 2018
Providing for the Closing of Executive
Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on
December 5, 2018
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 on December 5,
2018, as a mark of respect for George Herbert Walker
Bush, the forty-first President of the United States.
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 report for duty on
December 5, 2018, for reasons of national security,
defense, or other public need.
Sec. 3. December 5, 2018, 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. The Director of the Office of Personnel
Management shall take such actions as may be necessary
to implement this order.
Sec. 5. General Provisions. (a) This order shall be
implemented consistent with applicable law and subject
to the availability of appropriations.
(b) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair
or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or
the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(c) 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 1, 2018.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed December 1, 2018. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.