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[CITE: 42USC192]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6--THE CHILDREN'S BUREAU
 
Sec. 192. Chief of bureau; investigations and reports

    The Children's Bureau shall be under the direction of a chief, to be 
appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the 
Senate. The said bureau shall investigate and report to the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services, upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of 
children and child life among all classes of our people, and shall 
especially investigate the questions of infant mortality, the birth 
rate, orphanage, juvenile courts, desertion, dangerous occupations, 
accidents and diseases of children, employment, legislation affecting 
children in the several States and Territories. But no official, or 
agent, or representative of said bureau shall, over the objection of the 
head of the family, enter any house used exclusively as a family 
residence. The chief of said bureau may from time to time publish the 
results of these investigations in such manner and to such extent as may 
be prescribed by the Secretary.

(Apr. 9, 1912, ch. 73, Sec. 2, 37 Stat. 79; Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, 
Secs. 3, 6, 37 Stat. 737, 738; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 2, Sec. 1, eff. July 
16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7873, 60 Stat. 1095; 1953 Reorg. Plan No. 1, Secs. 5, 
8, eff. Apr. 11, 1953, 18 F.R. 2053, 67 Stat. 631; Pub. L. 96-88, title 
V, Sec. 509(b), Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 695.)

                          Codification

    In the first sentence of this section, provisions which specified an 
annual compensation of $5,000 for the chief of the Childrens Bureau have 
been omitted superseded. Following enactment of the Classification Act 
of 1923, the compensation was fixed in accordance with that Act. See act 
Feb. 27, 1925, title IV, 43 Stat. 1050. Sections 1202 and 1204 of the 
Classification Act of 1949, 63 Stat. 972, 973, repealed the 
Classification Act of 1923 and all other laws or parts of laws 
inconsistent with the 1949 Act. The Classification Act of 1949 was 
repealed by Pub. L. 89-554, Sept. 6, 1966, Sec. 8(a), 80 Stat. 632, and 
reenacted as chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of Title 5, 
Government Organization and Employees. Section 5102 of Title 5 now 
contains the applicability provisions of the 1949 Act, and section 5103 
of Title 5 authorizes the Office of Personnel Management to determine 
the applicability to specific positions and employees.
    Section was formerly classified to section 18a of Title 29, Labor.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Functions of Federal Security Administrator transferred to Secretary 
of Health, Education, and Welfare and all agencies of Federal Security 
Agency transferred to Department of Health, Education, and Welfare by 
section 5 of Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1953, set out as a note under section 
3501 of this title. Federal Security Agency and office of Administrator 
abolished by section 8 of Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1953. Secretary and 
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare redesignated Secretary and 
Department of Health and Human Services by section 509(b) of Pub. L. 96-
88 which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education.
    ``Federal Security Administrator'' substituted for ``said 
department'' and for ``Secretary of Labor'' pursuant to Reorg. Plan No. 
2 of 1946. See note set out under section 191 of this title.
    ``Secretary of Labor'' substituted for ``Secretary of Commerce and 
Labor'' pursuant to act Mar. 4, 1913. See note set out under section 191 
of this title.
