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[CITE: 22USC4824]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
                     CHAPTER 58--DIPLOMATIC SECURITY
 
                        SUBCHAPTER II--PERSONNEL
 
Sec. 4824. Contracting authority

    The Secretary of State is authorized to employ individuals or 
organizations by contract to carry out the purposes of this Act, and 
individuals employed by contract to perform such services shall not by 
virtue of such employment be considered to be employees of the United 
States Government for purposes of any law administered by the Office of 
Personnel Management (except that the Secretary may determine the 
applicability to such individuals of any law administered by the 
Secretary concerning the employment of such individuals); and such 
contracts are authorized to be negotiated, the terms of the contracts to 
be prescribed, and the work to be performed, where necessary, without 
regard to such statutory provisions as relate to the negotiation, making 
and performance of contracts and performance of work in the United 
States.

(Pub. L. 99-399, title II, Sec. 206, as added Pub. L. 105-277, div. C, 
title I, Sec. 104, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681-586.)

                       References in Text

    This Act, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 99-399, Aug. 27, 1986, 100 
Stat. 853, known as the Omnibus Diplomatic Security and Antiterrorism 
Act of 1986. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see 
Short Title note set out under section 4801 of this title and Tables.
