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    38 USC CHAPTER 5 - AUTHORITY AND DUTIES OF THE SECRETARY    01/19/04

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    TITLE 38 - VETERANS' BENEFITS

    PART I - GENERAL PROVISIONS

    CHAPTER 5 - AUTHORITY AND DUTIES OF THE SECRETARY

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             CHAPTER 5 - AUTHORITY AND DUTIES OF THE SECRETARY         

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                    SUBCHAPTER I - GENERAL AUTHORITIES                

    Sec.                                                     

    501.        Rules and regulations.                                

    502.        Judicial review of rules and regulations.             

    503.        Administrative error; equitable relief.               

    505.        Opinions of Attorney General.                         

    510.        Authority to reorganize offices.                      

    511.        Decisions of the Secretary; finality.                 

    512.        Delegation of authority; assignment of functions and

                 duties.                                              

    513.        Contracts and personal services.                      

    515.        Administrative settlement of tort claims.             

    516.        Equal employment responsibilities.                    

                    SUBCHAPTER II - SPECIFIED FUNCTIONS                

    521.        Assistance to certain rehabilitation activities.      

    522.        Studies of rehabilitation of disabled persons.        

    523.        Coordination and promotion of other programs affecting

                 veterans and their dependents.                       

    525.        Publication of laws relating to veterans.             

    527.        Evaluation and data collection.                       

    529.        Annual report to Congress.                            

    530.        Annual report on program and expenditures for domestic

                 response to weapons of mass destruction.             

    531.        Requirement relating to naming of Department property.

                   SUBCHAPTER III - ADVISORY COMMITTEES               

    541.        Advisory Committee on Former Prisoners of War.        

    542.        Advisory Committee on Women Veterans.                 

    543.        Advisory Committee on Prosthetics and

                 Special-Disabilities Programs.                       

    544.        Advisory Committee on Minority Veterans.              

    545.        Advisory Committee on the Readjustment of Veterans.   

                                AMENDMENTS                            

      1998 - Pub. L. 105-368, title IX, Sec. 906(b), title X, Sec.

    1001(a)(2), Nov. 11, 1998, 112 Stat. 3362, 3363, added items 530

    and 531.

      1997 - Pub. L. 105-114, title I, Sec. 101(a)(2), Nov. 21, 1997,

    111 Stat. 2279, added item 516.

      1996 - Pub. L. 104-262, title III, Sec. 333(a)(2), Oct. 9, 1996,

    110 Stat. 3200, added item 545.

      1994 - Pub. L. 103-446, title V, Sec. 510(b), Nov. 2, 1994, 108

    Stat. 4670, added item 544.

      1992 - Pub. L. 102-405, title I, Sec. 105(b)(2), Oct. 9, 1992,

    106 Stat. 1976, added item 543.