official duty
Mandated job task
Official duty is a task or responsibility that comes with a formal position or role, especially in government or public service.
Police officers act in their official duties when enforcing laws; elected officials perform official duties when carrying out the functions of their office.
The phrase often appears in legal contexts distinguishing acts performed in one's capacity as an office holder from personal conduct: He was injured in the line of official duty.
She claimed immunity for actions taken in her official duties.
- recordkeepingMaintaining organized documentation
- schedulingAssigning times to events
- judicial rulingsFormal court determinations
- diplomatic negotiationsFormal interstate dialogue
- personnel managementOverseeing an organization's workers
due diligence · fiduciary responsibility · tax collection · dereliction · budget planning · resource allocation · public servant · military service · chain of command · conflict resolution · civil servant · government service · corporate governance · sworn testimony · abdication · civil servant
- duty
- legal defensesself-defense, alibi, affirmative defense, insanity defense, insanity
- legal dutiesobligation, legal obligation, standard of care
official dutyprivate matter
Personal concern, not shared
voluntary act · personal business · personal choice · leisure activity · hobby
official dutyfriendly gesture
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