Presidential Records Law and Legal Definition
The term "Presidential records" is defined by 44 USCS § 2201 as documentary materials, or any reasonably segregable portion thereof, created or received by the President, his immediate staff, or a unit or individual of the Executive Office of the President whose function is to advise and assist the President, in the course of conducting activities which relate to or have an effect upon the carrying out of the constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties of the President. Such term--
(A) includes any documentary materials relating to the political activities of the President or members of his staff, but only if such activities relate to or have a direct effect upon the carrying out of constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial duties of the President; but
(B) does not include any documentary materials that are (i) official records of an agency (as defined in section 552(e) of title 5, United States Code; (ii) personal records; (iii) stocks of publications and stationery; or (iv) extra copies of documents produced only for convenience of reference, when such copies are clearly so identified.
Legal Definition list
- Presidential Proclamation [Patents]
- Presidential Medal of Freedom
- Presidential Historical Materials
- Presidential Archival Depository
- President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
- Presidential Records
- Presidential Succession Act
- Presidential Veto
- Presidentially-Declared Disaster
- Presidentially-Designated Emergency
- Presidentially-Designated Emergency [Agriculture]
Related Legal Terms
- Agency Records [Aeronautics and Space]
- Agency Records [Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board]
- Authority to Request Records for a Law Enforcement Purpose
- Burnt-Records Act
- Business Records
- Business Records Exception
- Compelling Need for Records
- Corporate Records
- Department of Vital Records
- Deposit Account Records [Banks & Banking]
