The phrase "authorized branch" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific division or office that has been given official permission to act on behalf of an organization or entity.
Example: "Please direct all inquiries to the authorized branch of our customer service department for assistance."
Alternatives: "official branch" or "designated branch".
In 1835, Congress had authorized branch mints at Charlotte, North Carolina, Dahlonega, Georgia, and New Orleans, Louisiana, to strike into American coin the gold being mined in or entering the country through the South.
Congress had in 1835 authorized branch mints at Dahlonega in Georgia, Charlotte in North Carolina, and at New Orleans in Louisiana.
As one of the country's leading trade law experts and probably the foremost authority on Fast Track, Lori Wallach of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, put it: [Fast track] authorized executive-branch officials to set US policy on non-tariff, and indeed not-trade, issues in the context of 'trade' negotiations.
The Authorization for Use of Military Force, which was passed right after 9/11, authorized the executive branch to essentially wage war against the masterminds of the 9/11 attacks.
"Congress has not authorized the executive branch to waive any of the above statutory requirements," Mr. Orszag's letter said.
The administration repeatedly, systematically twisted the law to immunize its criminal conduct, and much of what was done was authorized by executive branch lawyers, particularly in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel.
In 1798, the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts increased the residency requirement from five years to fourteen before immigrants could vote, and authorized the executive branch to summarily deport immigrants who were deemed dangerous or who had come from hostile nations.
What's happened in those cases is that no new appropriation bill has been passed authorizing many branches of the federal government to operate.
In an act of the Virginia General Assembly on February 5, 1817, the Bank of the Valley of Virginia was authorized to open branches in Berkeley, Hampshire, Hardy, and Jefferson counties if citizens in each of the aforementioned areas could raise 100,000 USD in stock to establish a branch.
His actions in both Afghanistan and Iraq were fully authorized by the legislative branch — a fact barely acknowledged by Dean as he hyperventilates over the most extreme arguments of John Yoo and other conservative theorists of executive power.
As a candidate, Mr. Obama, in a questionnaire for The Boston Globe in late 2007, vowed it would be different in his administration: "History has shown us time and time again," he responded, "that military action is most successful when it is authorized by the legislative branch".
