---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 4274"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "4274"
heading: "Organization of Commission"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/4274"
units:
  - "Chapter 53 — Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations"
---

# §4274. Organization of Commission

- (a) **Initial meeting—** The President shall convene the Commission within ninety days following September 24, 1959 at such time and place as he may designate for the Commission’s initial meeting.
- (b) **Chairman and Vice Chairman—** The President shall designate a Chairman and a Vice Chairman from among members of the Commission.
- (c) **Vacancies in membership—** Any vacancy in the membership of the Commission shall be filed in the same manner in which the original appointment was made; except that where the number of vacancies is fewer than the number of members specified in paragraphs (4), (5), (6), and (7) of [section 4273(a) of this title](/usc/42/4273.md?p=a), each panel of names submitted in accordance with the aforementioned paragraphs shall contain at least two names for each vacancy.
- (d) **Termination of service in official position from which originally appointed—** Where any member ceases to serve in the official position from which originally appointed under [section 4273(a) of this title](/usc/42/4273.md?p=a), his place on the Commission shall be deemed to be vacant.
- (e) **Quorum—** Thirteen members of the Commission shall constitute a quorum, but two or more members shall constitute a quorum for the purpose of conducting hearings.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 86–380, § 4, Sept. 24, 1959, 73 Stat. 705.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 2374 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.