---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 105"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "105"
heading: "Executive agency"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/105"
units:
  - "Part I — The Agencies Generally"
  - "Chapter 1 — Organization"
---

# §105. Executive agency


For the purpose of this title, “Executive [agency](/usc/5/601.md?p=1)” means an Executive department, a Government corporation, and an independent [establishment](/usc/5/401.md?p=1).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 379.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

The section is supplied to avoid the necessity for defining “Executive agency” each time it is used in this title.