# 83 FR 62687: Providing for the Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on December 5, 2018 > Federal · Executive orders · In force URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/EXEC_2018-26552 ## Section - **Citation:** 83 FR 62687 - **Heading:** Providing for the Closing of Executive Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government on December 5, 2018 - **Jurisdiction:** Federal - **Kind:** Executive orders - **Status:** In force - **Text as of:** August 14, 2026 - **Source:** Compiled text - **Location:** Presidential Documents / Executive Order / 2018-26552 ## Text [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 [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2018-26552] Presidential Documents Federal Register / Vol. 83 , No. 233 / Tuesday, December 4, 2018 / Presidential Documents [[Page 62687]] 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. der 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. [[Page 62688]] (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. (Presidential Sig.) THE WHITE HOUSE, December 1, 2018. 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