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[CITE: 50USC5]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                 CHAPTER 1--COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
Sec. 5. Reports of subordinate bodies and committees; 
        unvouchered expenditures
        
    Reports shall be submitted by all subordinate bodies and by the 
advisory commission to the council, and from time to time the council 
shall report to the President or to the heads of executive departments 
upon special inquiries or subjects appropriate thereto. When deemed 
proper the President may authorize, in amounts stipulated by him, 
unvouchered expenditures.

(Aug. 29, 1916, ch. 418, Sec. 2, 39 Stat. 650; Aug. 7, 1946, ch. 770, 
Sec. 1(53), 60 Stat. 870.)

                          Codification

    Second sentence was from a proviso to the first sentence, which was 
affected by act Aug. 7, 1946.


                               Amendments

    1946--Act Aug. 7, 1946, repealed all provisions requiring annual 
reports to Congress of the Council's activities and expenditures.


                   Termination of Advisory Commissions

    Advisory commissions in existence on Jan. 5, 1973, to terminate not 
later than the expiration of the 2-year period following Jan. 5, 1973, 
unless, in the case of a commission established by the President or an 
officer of the Federal Government, such commission is renewed by 
appropriate action prior to the expiration of such 2-year period, or in 
the case of a commission established by the Congress, its duration is 
otherwise provided by law. Advisory commissions established after Jan. 
5, 1973, to terminate not later than the expiration of the 2-year period 
beginning on the date of their establishment, unless, in the case of a 
commission established by the President or an officer of the Federal 
Government, such commission is renewed by appropriate action prior to 
the expiration of such 2-year period, or in the case of a commission 
established by the Congress, its duration is otherwise provided by law. 
See sections 3(2) and 14 of Pub. L. 92-463, Oct. 6, 1972, 86 Stat. 770, 
776, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and 
Employees.
