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[CITE: 10USC3018]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                            Subtitle B--Army
 
                          PART I--ORGANIZATION
 
                   CHAPTER 303--DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
 
Sec. 3018. Administrative Assistant

    (a) There is an Administrative Assistant in the Department of the 
Army. The Administrative Assistant shall be appointed by the Secretary 
of the Army and shall perform duties that the Secretary considers 
appropriate.
    (b) During a vacancy in the office of Secretary, the Administrative 
Assistant has charge and custody of all records, books, and papers of 
the Department of the Army.
    (c) The Secretary may authorize the Administrative Assistant to 
sign, during the temporary absence of the Secretary, any paper requiring 
his signature. In such a case, the Administrative Assistant's signature 
has the same effect as the Secretary's signature.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 159, Sec. 3016; renumbered 
Sec. 3018, Pub. L. 99-433, title V, Sec. 501(a)(3), Oct. 1, 1986, 100 
Stat. 1034.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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3016(a)...............................  5:185.                               R.
S. 215; Feb. 27, 1877, ch. 69 (2d
3016(b)...............................  5:186.                                p
ar.), 19 Stat. 241.
3016(c)...............................  5:187.
                                        ...................................  Ma
r. 4, 1874, ch. 44, 18 Stat. 19.
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    Although 5:185, 186, and 187 are omitted from the United States Code 
as covered by 5:181-5, they are not so superseded and are restated in 
this revised section.
    In subsections (a), (b), and (c), the title ``Administrative 
Assistant'' is substituted for the title ``Assistant and Chief Clerk'', 
to accord with present usage. R.S. 215 (less last sentence) is not 
contained in 5:185 and 186. It is also omitted from the revised section 
as obsolete.
    In subsection (a), the words ``an inferior officer'' are omitted, 
since the Secretary's authority to appoint the Administrative Assistant 
makes the office an inferior office within the meaning of the 
Constitution. The words ``perform duties that the Secretary considers 
appropriate'' are substituted for the words ``to be employed therein as 
he shall deem proper''.
    In subsection (b), the words ``During a vacancy in the office of 
Secretary * * * has'' are substituted for the words ``whenever the 
Secretary of the Army shall be removed from office by the President of 
the United States, or in any other case of vacancy, shall, during such 
vacancy have the''. The word ``of'' is substituted for the words 
``appertaining to''.
    In subsection (c), the words ``during the temporary absence of the 
Secretary'' are substituted for the words ``When, from illness or other 
cause, the Secretary of War is temporarily absent from the War 
Department''. The words ``requisitions upon the Treasury Department'' 
are omitted as surplusage. The last sentence is substituted for 5:187 
(words after semicolon).


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 3018, added Pub. L. 85-861, Sec. 1(59)(A), Sept. 2, 
1958, 72 Stat. 1462, prescribed compensation of General Counsel of 
Department of the Army, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 88-426, title III, 
Sec. 305(40)(A), Aug. 14, 1964, 78 Stat. 427, eff. first day of first 
pay period beginning on or after July 1, 1964.
