[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 39, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 39CFR222.1]

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                        TITLE 39--POSTAL SERVICE
 
                 CHAPTER I--UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE
 
PART 222--DELEGATIONS OF AUTHORITY--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 222.1  Authority for delegation.

    (a) The Postmaster General is empowered to authorize any employee or 
agent of the Service to exercise any function vested in the Postal 
Service, in the PMG, or in any other Postal Service employee.
    (b) The Deputy Postmaster General is the full alternate to the 
Postmaster General.
    (c) When, by reason of absence, disability, or vacancy in office, 
neither the Postmaster General nor the Deputy Postmaster General can act 
as Postmaster General, the first available official on the following 
list will do so:
    (1) Associate Postmaster General;
    (2) Senior Assistant Postmaster General, Operations Support.
    (d) The Postmaster General has been authorized by the Board of 
Governors to exercise the powers of the Postal Service to the full 
extent that such exercise is lawful. See Secs. 3.5 and 4.3 of this 
chapter.
    (e) The Associate Postmasters General; the SAPMGs; the Chief Postal 
Inspector; the General Counsel; the Assistant Postmaster General, 
Planning; and the Executive Assistant to the Postmaster General, act for 
the Postmaster General on assigned matters. These officers are 
authorized to exercise the powers and functions of the Postal Service 
under the Postal Reorganization Act, in respect to matters within their 
area of responsibility, except as limited by law or by the specific 
terms of their assignment.

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    (f) Heads of departments or offices who report to a Senior Assistant 
Postmaster General are authorized to exercise the powers and functions 
of that SAPMG within the area of responsibility of their department or 
office, except as such authority may be reserved or rescinded by the 
SAPMG or is limited by law or the terms of their specific assignment.

[38 FR 20404, July 31, 1973, as amended at 46 FR 34330, July 1, 1981; 48 
FR 1965, Dec. 17, 1983; 48 FR 30111, June 30, 1983; 51 FR 40797, Nov. 
10, 1986; 54 FR 29707, July 14, 1989]