Presidential DocumentExecutive Order 138522018-26552
Providing for the Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on December 5, 2018
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Published
December 4, 2018
Signed
December 1, 2018
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Executive Office of the President
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[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 233 (Tuesday, December 4, 2018)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 62687-62688]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2018-26552]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 83 , No. 233 / Tuesday, December 4, 2018 /
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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.
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(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.
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[FR Doc. 2018-26552
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