Revocation of Executive Order 13770
Signed January 19, 2021·Donald Trump·86 FR 6835
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Plain-language summary
Revokes Executive Order 13770 of January 28, 2017, titled "Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Appointees," effective at noon on January 20, 2021. Current and former executive branch employees who had been bound by the ethics commitments set out in that earlier order are no longer subject to them after that time. The order states it does not affect existing legal authority of federal agencies or their heads, nor the budgetary, administrative, or legislative functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and that it creates no enforceable rights or benefits for any party.
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Claimed authority
By the authority vested in me as President of the United States by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, including section 301 of title 3, United States Code, and sections 3301 and 7301 of title 5, United States Code, it is hereby ordered
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Disposition
Revokes: EO 13770, January 28, 2017
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The order, in full
Executive Order 13983 of January 19, 2021
Revocation of Executive Order 13770
By the authority vested in me as President of the
United States by the Constitution and laws of the
United States of America, including section 301 of
title 3, United States Code, and sections 3301 and 7301
of title 5, United States Code, it is hereby ordered as
follows:
Section 1. Revocation. Executive Order 13770 of January
28, 2017, “Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch
Appointees,” is hereby revoked, effective at noon
January 20, 2021. Employees and former employees
subject to the commitments in Executive Order 13770
will not be subject to those commitments after noon
January 20, 2021.
Sec. 2. General Provisions. (a) 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.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with
applicable law and subject to the availability of
appropriations.
(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,
January 19, 2021.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed January 19, 2021. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.