{"identifier":"/us/usc/t13/s13","title_num":"13","num":"§ 13.","heading":"Procurement of professional services","status":null,"guid":"iddf161c23-7dda-11e7-b7b6-dc450dd8f058","source_credit":"(Added Pub. L. 85–207, § 5, Aug. 28, 1957, 71 Stat. 481.)","seq_in_title":12,"parent_identifier":"/us/usc/t13/ch1/schI","ancestors":[{"identifier":"/us/usc/t13","level":"title","num":"Title 13—","heading":"CENSUS","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t13/ch1","level":"chapter","num":"CHAPTER 1—","heading":"ADMINISTRATION","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t13/ch1/schI","level":"subchapter","num":"SUBCHAPTER I—","heading":"GENERAL PROVISIONS","status":null,"is_section":false}],"xml":"<section xmlns=\"http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:dcterms=\"http://purl.org/dc/terms/\" style=\"-uslm-lc:I80\" id=\"id8d9c0d5a-f67c-11e5-ab1c-cd1d2297a863\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t13/s13\"><num value=\"13\">§ 13.</num><heading> Procurement of professional services</heading><content>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\">The Secretary shall have authority to contract with educational and other research organizations for the preparation of monographs and other reports and materials of a similar nature.</p>\n</content><sourceCredit id=\"id8d9c0d5b-f67c-11e5-ab1c-cd1d2297a863\">(Added <ref href=\"/us/pl/85/207\">Pub. L. 85–207</ref>, § 5, <date date=\"1957-08-28\">Aug. 28, 1957</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/71/481\">71 Stat. 481</ref>.)</sourceCredit>\n</section>","provision":null,"duplicates":[],"release":{"label":"115-45","currency_date":"2017-08-04","congress":115,"law_num":45,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":106,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["02","09","11","11a","12","13","14","17","18a","22","31","33","50"],"ingested_titles":[]},"served_from":{"label":"115-45","currency_date":"2017-08-04","congress":115,"law_num":45,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":106,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["02","09","11","11a","12","13","14","17","18a","22","31","33","50"],"ingested_titles":[]},"content_first_seen":{"label":"114-139","currency_date":"2016-03-18","congress":114,"law_num":139,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":63,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["03","05","06","07","08","10","13","14","15","16","18","19","21","22","26","28","30","33","36","38","39","42","44","46","47","49","50"],"ingested_titles":[]},"is_exact":true,"note":null}