---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 381"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "381"
heading: "Functions transferred"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/381"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter VIII — Coordination with Non-Federal Entities; Inspector General; United States Secret Service; Coast Guard; General Provisions"
  - "Part C — United States Secret Service"
---

# §381. Functions transferred


In accordance with subchapter XII, there shall be transferred to the [Secretary](/usc/6/101.md?p=16) the [functions](/usc/6/101.md?p=9), [personnel](/usc/6/101.md?p=15), [assets](/usc/6/101.md?p=3), and obligations of the [United States](/usc/6/101.md?p=19-A) Secret Service, which shall be maintained as a distinct [entity](/usc/6/301c.md?p=2) within the [Department](/usc/6/101.md?p=5), including the [functions](/usc/6/101.md?p=9) of the [Secretary](/usc/6/101.md?p=16) of the Treasury relating thereto.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–296, title VIII, § 821, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2224.)