yourstate.us
Home / United States / 6 U.S.C.
6 U.S.C. § 161

Establishment of Office; Director

United States · Title 6 — DOMESTIC SECURITY · Status: effective

Get this as JSONEmbed this
Cite this
Citation
6 U.S.C. § 161, Establishment of Office; Director, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/427792
Permanent ID
ys:prov:427792@1
SHA-256
f02499f8fa94d5b6338d9546776e15b2b4d2c610012d60aad42a84de80d03e0b

The hash is SHA-256 of this version's text, with every run of whitespace collapsed to a single space and the ends trimmed. The ID always leads back here, and checking it says whether the text you cited is still the current version.

Full text

There is hereby established within the Department of Justice an Office of Science and Technology (hereinafter in this subchapter referred to as the “Office”). The Office shall be under the general authority of the Assistant Attorney General, Office of Justice Programs, and shall be established within the National Institute of Justice. The Office shall be headed by a Director, who shall be an individual appointed based on approval by the Office of Personnel Management of the executive qualifications of the individual.

Legislative history

The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone.