Providing an Order of Succession Within the Department of Justice

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 12 (Thursday, January 19, 2017)]

[Presidential Documents]

[Pages 7619-7620]

From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

[FR Doc No: 2017-01487]

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Federal Register / Vol. 82 , No. 12 / Thursday, January 19, 2017 /

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Executive Order 13762 of January 13, 2017

Providing an Order of Succession Within the

Department of Justice

By the authority vested in me as President by the

Constitution and the laws of the United States of

America, including the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of

1998, 5 U.S.C. 3345 et seq., it is hereby ordered that:

Section 1. Order of Succession. Subject to the

provisions of section 2 of this order, the following

officers, in the order listed, shall act as and perform

the functions and duties of the office of Attorney

General, during any period in which the Attorney

General, the Deputy Attorney General, the Associate

Attorney General, and any officers designated by the

Attorney General pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 508 to act as

Attorney General have died, resigned, or otherwise

become unable to perform the functions and duties of

the office of Attorney General, until such time as at

least one of the officers mentioned above is able to

perform the functions and duties of that office:

(a) United States Attorney for the District of

Columbia;

(b) United States Attorney for the Northern

District of Illinois; and

the office of Attorney General, until such time as at

least one of the officers mentioned above is able to

perform the functions and duties of that office:

(a) United States Attorney for the District of

Columbia;

(b) United States Attorney for the Northern

District of Illinois; and

(c) United States Attorney for the Central District

of California.

Sec. 2. Exceptions. (a) No individual who is serving in

an office listed in section 1 of this order in an

acting capacity, by virtue of so serving, shall act as

Attorney General pursuant to this order.

(b) No individual listed in section 1 shall act as

Attorney General unless that individual is otherwise

eligible to so serve under the Federal Vacancies Reform

Act of 1998.

(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of this order,

the President retains discretion, to the extent

permitted by law, to depart from this order in

designating an acting Attorney General.

Sec. 3. Executive Order 13557 of November 4, 2010, is

revoked.

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Sec. 4. 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 13, 2017.

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