There is established an agency in the executive branch of the Government which shall be known as the General Services Administration.
There shall be at the head of the General Services Administration an Administrator of General Services who shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and perform his functions subject to the direction and control of the President.
There shall be in the General Services Administration a Deputy Administrator of General Services who shall be appointed by the Administrator of General Services. The Deputy Administrator shall perform such functions as the Administrator shall designate and shall be Acting Administrator of General Services during the absence or disability of the Administrator and, unless the President shall designate another officer of the Government, in the event of a vacancy in the office of Administrator.
The Administrator shall have authority to prescribe regulations to carry out this Act.
(June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title I, §101, 63 Stat. 379; Pub. L. 99–500, §101(m) [title VIII, §832], Oct. 18, 1986, 100 Stat. 1783–308, 1783–345, and Pub. L. 99–591, §101(m) [title VIII, §832], Oct. 30, 1986, 100 Stat. 3341–308, 3341–345.)
This Act, referred to in subsec. (f), is act June 30, 1949, ch. 288, 63 Stat. 377, as amended, known as the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 471 of this title and Tables.
Pub. L. 99–591 is a corrected version of Pub. L. 99–500.
Subsec. (d) of this section, which related to performance of functions until appointment of the Administrator, is omitted.
Subsec. (e) of this section, which authorized the President to fix rates of compensation for the Administrator, the Deputy Administrator, and the heads and assistant heads of the principal organizations of the General Services Administration pending the effective date of other provisions of law fixing the rates of compensation of such officers, is omitted.
Section was formerly classified to section 630 of Title 5 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, by Pub. L. 89–554, §1, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 378. Prior thereto, section was classified to section 211 of Title 41, Public Contracts.
1986—Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 99–500 and Pub. L. 99–591 added subsec. (f).
Chapter effective July 1, 1949, see section 605 of act June 30, 1949, set out as a note under section 471 of this title.
Annual rate of basic compensation of Administrator and Deputy Administrator, see sections 5314 and 5315 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
The definitions in section 472 of this title apply to this chapter.
For assignment of certain emergency preparedness functions to the Administrator of General Services, see Parts 1, 2, and 18 of Ex. Ord. No. 12656, Nov. 18, 1988, 53 F.R. 47491, set out as a note under section 5195 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare.