---
kind: "section"
citation: "44 U.S.C. § 2105"
title: "44"
title_heading: "Public Printing and Documents"
number: "2105"
heading: "Personnel and services"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/44/2105"
units:
  - "Chapter 21 — National Archives and Records Administration"
---

# §2105. Personnel and services

- (a)
  - (1) The [Archivist](/usc/44/2101.md?p=3) is authorized to select, appoint, employ, and fix the compensation of such officers and employees, pursuant to part III of [title 5](/usc/5.md), as are necessary to perform the functions of the [Archivist](/usc/44/2101.md?p=3) and the [Administration](/usc/44/2101.md?p=4).
  - (2) Notwithstanding [paragraph (1)](#a-1), the [Archivist](/usc/44/2101.md?p=3) is authorized to appoint, subject to the consultation requirements set forth in paragraph (f)(2) of [section 2203 of this title](/usc/44/2203.md),[^1] a director at each [Presidential archival depository](/usc/44/2101.md?p=1) established under [section 2112 of this title](/usc/44/2112.md). The [Archivist](/usc/44/2101.md?p=3) may appoint a director without regard to subchapter I and subchapter VIII of [chapter 33](/usc/5/chptIII/sptB/ch33.md) of title 5, United States Code, governing appointments in the competitive service and the Senior Executive Service. A director so appointed shall be responsible for the care and preservation of the Presidential [records](/usc/44/2901.md?p=1) and historical materials deposited in a [Presidential archival depository](/usc/44/2101.md?p=1), shall serve at the pleasure of the [Archivist](/usc/44/2101.md?p=3) and shall perform such other functions as the [Archivist](/usc/44/2101.md?p=3) may specify.
- (b) The [Archivist](/usc/44/2101.md?p=3) is authorized to obtain the services of experts and consultants under [section 3109 of title 5](/usc/5/3109.md).
- (c) Notwithstanding the provisions of [section 973 of title 10](/usc/10/973.md) or any other provision of law, the [Archivist](/usc/44/2101.md?p=3), in carrying out the functions of the [Archivist](/usc/44/2101.md?p=3) or the [Administration](/usc/44/2101.md?p=4), is authorized to utilize in the [Administration](/usc/44/2101.md?p=4) the services of officials, officers, and other personnel in other [Federal agencies](/usc/44/2901.md?p=14), including personnel of the armed services, with the consent of the head of the agency concerned.
- (d) Notwithstanding [section 1342 of title 31](/usc/31/1342.md), United States Code, the [Archivist](/usc/44/2101.md?p=3) is authorized to accept and utilize voluntary and uncompensated services.

## Footnotes

[^1]: See References in Text note below.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 98–497, title I, § 102(a)(2), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2281; amended Pub. L. 107–67, title VI, § 649, Nov. 12, 2001, 115 Stat. 556.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Paragraph (f)(2) of section 2203 of this title, referred to in subsec. (a)(2), was redesignated (g)(2) of section 2203 of this title by Pub. L. 113–187, § 2(c)(3), Nov. 26, 2014, 128 Stat. 2006.

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 2105 was renumbered section 2109 of this title.

### Amendments

2001—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 107–67 amended subsec. (a) generally, designating existing provisions as par. (1) and adding par. (2).

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Apr. 1, 1985, see section 301 of Pub. L. 98–497, set out as an Effective Date of 1984 Amendment note under section 2102 of this title.