---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 1435"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "1435"
heading: "Delegation of authority by Secretary"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/1435"
units:
  - "Chapter 18 — United States Information and Educational Exchange Programs"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §1435. Delegation of authority by Secretary


The [Secretary](/usc/22/1433.md?p=1) may delegate, to such officers of the Government as the [Secretary](/usc/22/1433.md?p=1) determines to be appropriate, any of the powers conferred upon him by this chapter to the extent that he finds such delegation to be in the interest of the purposes expressed in this chapter and the efficient administration of the programs undertaken pursuant to this chapter.


## Source credit

(Jan. 27, 1948, ch. 36, title X, § 1002, 62 Stat. 13.)