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28 CFR § 0.135 - Functions common to heads of organizational units. 

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t28/s0.135"
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legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "28 CFR § 0.135 - Functions common to heads of organizational units."
title_number: 28
title_name: "Judicial Administration"
section_number: "0.135"
section_name: "Functions common to heads of organizational units."
chapter_name: "DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE"
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part_name: "ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE"
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currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
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generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "5 U.S.C. 301; 28 U.S.C. 509, 510, 515-519."
regulatory_source: "Order No. 423-69, 34 FR 20388, Dec. 31, 1969, unless otherwise noted."
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# 0.135 Functions common to heads of organizational units.

Subject to the general supervision and direction of the Attorney General, the head of each organizational unit within the Department shall:

(a) Direct and supervise the personnel, administration, and operation of the office, division, bureau, or board of which he is in charge.

(b) Under regulations prescribed by the Attorney General with the approval of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, have authority to reallot funds allotted by the Assistant Attorney General for Administration and to redelegate to persons within his organizational unit authority and responsibility for the reallotment of such funds and control of obligations and expenditures within reallotments.

(c) Perform such special assignments as may from time to time be made to him by the Attorney General.

(d) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, receive submittals and requests relative to the functions of his organizational unit.

[Order No. 423-69, 34 FR 20388, Dec. 31, 1969, as amended by Order No. 445-70, 35 FR 19397, Dec. 23, 1970; Order No. 960-81, 46 FR 52349, Oct. 27, 1981. Redesignated by Order No. 2650-2003, 68 FR 4926, Jan. 31, 2003. Further redesignated by AG Order No. 3229-2010, 75 FR 70123, Nov. 17, 2010]