This transfer of duties fit well with the Coast Guard's port safety and security missions, and was made permanent in 1946.

The transfer of duties was announced in a proclamation read on state television at 8:15 PM by Castro's secretary, Carlos Valenciaga.

In 1979, a similar transfer of duties from the commission to the city's Personnel Department was attempted by Mayor Koch, but was abandoned after opposition arose.

Balaguer was one of the six members of the Cuban Government designated by Fidel Castro in his transfer of duties on July 31, 2006.

She'd requested a transfer of duties, and just two weeks ago, coincident with her promotion to ensign, Captain Kirk and Commander Spock had approved her move from the engineering and services division to sciences- and as a result, from a red uniform to a blue one.

The 2006-2008 Cuban transfer of presidential duties was a transfer of duties of the Cuban presidency from Fidel Castro to the first vice president, his brother Raúl Castro, following Fidel's operation and recovery from an undisclosed digestive illness believed to be diverticulitis.

Senators met in Washington, D.C. to discuss "A Democratic Cuba After Castro", as many senators argued that the United States should have a plan in case the United States would need to offer any help to Cuba during a transfer of duties.

The transfer of duties, which was announced on July 31, 2006, was in line with Article 94 of the Cuban Constitution, which states "In cases of the absence, illness or death of the president of the Council of State, the first vice president assumes the president's duties".

Robert Gangi, the executive director of the Correctional Association of New York, a prison watchdog group, has long bemoaned the conditions in the Brooklyn court pens and said that he was disappointed that the transfer of duties had been put on hold, given that correction officers are better equipped for the job.