---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 2664"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "2664"
heading: "Distribution of duties of officers, clerks, and employees"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/2664"
units:
  - "Chapter 38 — Department of State"
---

# §2664. Distribution of duties of officers, clerks, and employees


The Secretary of State may prescribe duties for the Assistant [Secretaries](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) and the clerks of bureaus, as well as for all the other employees in the department, and may make changes and transfers therein when, in his judgment, it becomes necessary.


## Source credit

(June 20, 1874, ch. 328, 18 Stat. 90; May 24, 1924, ch. 182, § 30, as added Feb. 23, 1931, ch. 276, § 7, 46 Stat. 1214.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 154 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.

Provisions of this section which related to the Solicitor of the Department were omitted in view of act May 24, 1924, which abolished the office.