---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 11314"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "11314"
heading: "Director and staff"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/11314"
units:
  - "Chapter 119 — Homeless Assistance"
  - "Subchapter II — United States Interagency Council on Homelessness"
---

# §11314. Director and staff

- (a) **Director—** The [Council](/usc/42/11317.md?p=1) shall appoint an Executive [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5), who shall be compensated at a rate not to exceed the rate of basic pay payable for level V of the Executive Schedule under [section 5316 of title 5](/usc/5/5316.md). The [Council](/usc/42/11317.md?p=1) shall appoint an Executive [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) at the first meeting of the [Council](/usc/42/11317.md?p=1) held under [section 11312(c) of this title](/usc/42/11312.md?p=c).
- (b) **Additional personnel—** With the approval of the [Council](/usc/42/11317.md?p=1), the Executive [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the [Council](/usc/42/11317.md?p=1) may appoint and fix the compensation of such additional personnel as the Executive [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) considers necessary to carry out the duties of the [Council](/usc/42/11317.md?p=1).
- (c) **Details from other agencies—** Upon request of the [Council](/usc/42/11317.md?p=1), the head of any [Federal agency](/usc/42/11317.md?p=2) may detail, on a reimbursable basis, any of the personnel of such [agency](/usc/42/11317.md?p=2) to the [Council](/usc/42/11317.md?p=1) to assist the [Council](/usc/42/11317.md?p=1) in carrying out its duties under this subchapter. Upon request of the [Council](/usc/42/11317.md?p=1), the [Secretary](/usc/42/11371.md?p=7) of Health and Human Services shall detail, on a reimbursable basis, any of the personnel of the Department of Health and Human Services who have served the Federal [Task Force](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=3) on the [Homeless](/usc/42/11302.md?p=a) of the Department to assist the [Council](/usc/42/11317.md?p=1) in carrying out its duties under this subchapter.
- (d) **Administrative support—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/11371.md?p=7) of Housing and Urban Development shall provide the [Council](/usc/42/11317.md?p=1) with such administrative and support services as are necessary to ensure that the [Council](/usc/42/11317.md?p=1) carries out its functions under this subchapter in an efficient and expeditious manner.
- (e) **Experts and consultants—** With the approval of the [Council](/usc/42/11317.md?p=1), the Executive [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the [Council](/usc/42/11317.md?p=1) may procure temporary and intermittent services under [section 3109(b) of title 5](/usc/5/3109.md?p=b).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 100–77, title II, § 204, July 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 488.)