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44 U.S.C. § 2202 — Ownership of Presidential records
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The United States shall reserve and retain complete ownership, possession, and control of Presidential records; and such records shall be administered in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
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The United States shall reserve and retain complete ownership, possession, and control of Presidential records; and such records shall be administered in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
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As used in this chapter—
(1) The term “documentary material” means all books, correspondence, memoranda, documents, papers, pamphlets, works of art, models, pictures, photographs, plats, maps, films, and motion pictures, including, but not limited to, audio and visual records, or other electronic or mechanical recordations, whether in analog, digital, or any other form.
(2) The term “Presidential records” means documentary materials, or any reasonably segregable portion thereof, created or received by the President, the President’s immediate staff, or a unit or individual of the Executive Office of the President whose function is to advise or 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 the President’s 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) 11 See References in Text note below. 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.
(3) The term “personal records” means all documentary materials, or any reasonably segregable portion therof,22 So in original. Probably should be “thereof,”. of a purely private or nonpublic character which do not relate to or have a
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TITLE 44—PUBLIC PRINTING AND DOCUMENTS
§ 2203
1 See References in Text note below.
2 So in original. Probably should be ‘‘thereof,’’.
agency (as defined in section 552(e) 1 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 cop-
ies are clearly so identified.
(3) The term ‘‘personal records’’ means all
documentary materials, or any reasonably
segregable portion therof,2 of a purely private
or nonpublic character which do not 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
includes—
(A) diaries, journals, or other personal
notes serving as the functional equivalent of
a diary or journal which are not prepared or
utilized for, or circulated or communicated
in the course of, transacting Government
business;
(B) materials relating to private political
associations, and having no relation to or di-
rect effect upon the carrying out of constitu-
tional, statutory, or other official or cere-
monial duties of the President; and
(C) materials relating exclusively to the
President’s own election to the office of the
Presidency; and materials directly relating
to the election of a particular individual or
individuals to Federal, State, or local office,
which have no relation to or direct effect
upon the carrying out of constitutional,
statutory, or other official or ceremonial du-
ties of the President.
(4) The term ‘‘Archivist’’ means the Archi-
vist of the United States.
(5) The term ‘‘former President’’, when used
with respect to Presidential records, means
the former President during whose term or
te
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