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 63 STAT.] 81sT CONG., lST SESS.-CH. 226-JUNE 20, 1949 LIMITATIONS ON POWERS WITH RESPECT TO REORGANIZATIONS SEC. 5. (a) No reorganization plan shall provide for, and no reorganization under this Act shall have the effect of- (1) abolishing or transferring an executive department or all the functions thereof or consolidating any two or more executive departments or all the functions thereof; or (2) continuing any agency beyond the period authorized by law for its existence or beyond the time when it would have terminated if the reorganization had not been made; or (3) continuing any function beyond the period authorized by law for its exercise, or beyond the time when it would have terminated if the reorganization had not been made; or (4) authorizing any agency to exercise any function which is not expressly authorized by law at the time the plan is trans- mitted to the Congress; or (5) increasing the term of any office beyond that provided by law for such office; or (6) transferring to or consolidating with any other agency the municipal government of the District of Columbia or all those functions thereof which are subject to this Act, or abolishing said government or all said functions. (b) No provision contained in a reorganization plan shall take effect unless the plan is transmitted to the Congress before April 1, 1953. TAKING EFFECT OF REORGANIZATIONS SEC. 6. (a) Except as may be otherwise provided pursuant to sub- section (c) of this section, the provisions of the reorganization plan shall take effect upon the expiration of the first period of sixty calen- dar days, of continuous session of the Congress, following the date on which the plan is transmitted to it; but only if, between the date of transmittal and the expiration of such sixty-day period there has not been passed by either of the two Houses, by the affirmative vote of a majority of the authorized membership of that House, a resolu- tion stating in substance that that House does not favor the reor- ganization plan. (b) For the purposes of subsection (a)- (1) continuity of session shall be considered as broken only by an adjournment of the Congress sine die- but (2) in the computation of the sixty-day period there shall be excluded the days on which either House is not in session because of an adjournment of more than three days to a day certain. (c) Any provision of the plan may, under provisions contained in the plan, be made operative at a time later than the date on which the plan shall otherwise take effect. DEFINITION OF CAGENCY" SEC. 7 . When used in this Act, the term "agency" means any executive department, commission, council, independent establishment, Government corporation, board, bureau, division, service, office, officer, authority, administration, or other establishment, in the executive branch of the Government, and means also any and all parts of the municipal government of the District of Columbia except the courts thereof. Such term does not include the Comptroller General of the United States or the General Accounting Office, which are a part of the legislative branch of the Government. 205 Time limitation for transmittal to Con- gress. Effective date.

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