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[CITE: 16USC831e]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
                 CHAPTER 12A--TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY
 
Sec. 831e. Officers and employees; nonpolitical appointment; 
        removal for violation
        
    In the appointment of officials and the selection of employees for 
said Corporation, and in the promotion of any such employees or 
officials, no political test or qualification shall be permitted or 
given consideration, but all such appointments and promotions shall be 
given and made on the basis of merit and efficiency. Any member of said 
board who is found by the President of the United States to be guilty of 
a violation of this section shall be removed from office by the 
President of the United States, and any appointee of said board who is 
found by the board to be guilty of a violation of this section shall be 
removed from office by said board.

(May 18, 1933, ch. 32, Sec. 6, 48 Stat. 63.)
