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[CITE: 15USC717q]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
                        CHAPTER 15B--NATURAL GAS
 
Sec. 717q. Appointment of officers and employees

    The Commission is authorized to appoint and fix the compensation of 
such officers, attorneys, examiners, and experts as may be necessary for 
carrying out its functions under this chapter; and the Commission may, 
subject to civil-service laws, appoint such other officers and employees 
as are necessary for carrying out such functions and fix their salaries 
in accordance with chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 
5.

(June 21, 1938, ch. 556, Sec. 18, 52 Stat. 831; Oct. 28, 1949, ch. 782, 
title XI, Sec. 1106(a), 63 Stat. 972.)

                       References in Text

    The civil-service laws, referred to in text, are set forth in Title 
5, Government Organization and Employees. See, particularly, section 
3301 et seq. of Title 5.

                          Codification

    Provisions that authorized the Commission to appoint and fix the 
compensation of such officers, attorneys, examiners, and experts as may 
be necessary for carrying out its functions under this chapter ``without 
regard to the provisions of other laws applicable to the employment and 
compensation of officers and employees of the United States'' are 
omitted as obsolete and superseded.
    As to the compensation of such personnel, sections 1202 and 1204 of 
the Classification Act of 1949, 63 Stat. 972, 973, repealed the 
Classification Act of 1923 and all other laws or parts of laws 
inconsistent with the 1949 Act. The Classification Act of 1949 was 
repealed by Pub. L. 89-554, Sept. 6, 1966, Sec. 8(a), 80 Stat. 632, and 
reenacted as chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of Title 5, 
Government Organization and Employees. Section 5102 of Title 5 contains 
the applicability provisions of the 1949 Act, and section 5103 of Title 
5 authorizes the Office of Personnel Management to determine the 
applicability to specific positions and employees.
    Such appointments are now subject to the civil service laws unless 
specifically excepted by those laws or by laws enacted subsequent to 
Executive Order 8743, Apr. 23, 1941, issued by the President pursuant to 
the Act of Nov. 26, 1940, ch. 919, title I, Sec. 1, 54 Stat. 1211, which 
covered most excepted positions into the classified (competitive) civil 
service. The Order is set out as a note under section 3301 of Title 5.
    ``Chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5'' 
substituted in text for ``the Classification Act of 1949, as amended'' 
on authority of Pub. L. 89-554, Sec. 7(b), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 631, 
the first section of which enacted Title 5.


                               Amendments

    1949--Act Oct. 28, 1949, substituted ``Classification Act of 1949'' 
for ``Classification Act of 1923''.


                                 Repeals

    Act Oct. 28, 1949, ch. 782, cited as a credit to this section, was 
repealed (subject to a savings clause) by Pub. L. 89-554, Sept. 6, 1966, 
Sec. 8, 80 Stat. 632, 655.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Federal Power Commission terminated and functions, personnel, 
property, funds, etc., transferred to the Secretary of Energy (except 
for certain functions transferred to the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission) by sections 7151(b), 7171(a), 7172(a)(1), 7291, and 7293 of 
Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare.
    For transfer of functions of Federal Power Commission, with certain 
reservations, to Chairman of such Commission, see Reorg. Plan No. 9 of 
1950, Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3175, 64 Stat. 1265, set 
out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
