44 U.S.C. § 2201 : US Code - Section 2201: Definitions

Search 44 U.S.C. § 2201 : US Code - Section 2201: Definitions

As used in this chapter -
(1) The term "documentary material" means all books,
correspondence, memorandums, documents, papers, pamphlets, works
of art, models, pictures, photographs, plats, maps, films, and
motion pictures, including, but not limited to, audio,
audiovisual, or other electronic or mechanical recordations.
(2) The term "Presidential records" means 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)
(!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 copies 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 direct effect upon the carrying out of
constitutional, statutory, or other official or ceremonial
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
duties of the President.
(4) The term "Archivist" means the Archivist of the United
States.
(5) The term "former President", when used with respect to
Presidential records, means the former President during whose
term or terms of office such Presidential records were created.