---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 105"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "105"
heading: "Executive agency"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/105"
units:
  - "Part I — The Agencies Generally"
  - "Chapter 1 — Organization"
---

# §105. Executive agency


For the purpose of this title, “[Executive agency](/usc/5/3330d.md?p=a-2-A)” means an Executive department, a [Government corporation](/usc/5/103.md?p=1), and an independent establishment.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 379.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

The section is supplied to avoid the necessity for defining “Executive agency” each time it is used in this title.