---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 6105"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "6105"
heading: "Closing of Executive departments"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/6105"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart E — Attendance and Leave"
  - "Chapter 61 — Hours of Work"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §6105. Closing of Executive departments


An Executive [department](/usc/5/10101.md?p=4) may not be closed as a mark to the memory of a deceased former official of the [United States](/usc/5/7103.md?p=a-18).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 516.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Derivation | U.S. Code | Revised Statutes and<br>Statutes at Large |
|  | 5 U.S.C. 28. | Mar. 3, 1893, ch. 211, § 4, 27 Stat. 715. |

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