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[CITE: 5USC2905]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
                      Subpart A--General Provisions
 
          CHAPTER 29--COMMISSIONS, OATHS, RECORDS, AND REPORTS
 
              SUBCHAPTER I--COMMISSIONS, OATHS, AND RECORDS
 
Sec. 2905. Oath; renewal

    (a) An employee of an Executive agency or an individual employed by 
the government of the District of Columbia who, on original appointment, 
subscribed to the oath of office required by section 3331 of this title 
is not required to renew the oath because of a change in status so long 
as his service is continuous in the agency in which he is employed, 
unless, in the opinion of the head of the Executive agency, the 
Secretary of a military department with respect to an employee of his 
department, or the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, the public 
interest so requires.
    (b) An individual who, on appointment as an employee of a House of 
Congress, subscribed to the oath of office required by section 3331 of 
this title is not required to renew the oath so long as his service as 
an employee of that House of Congress is continuous.

(Pub. L. 89-554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 412.)

                      Historical and Revision Notes
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                                                    Revised Statutes and
     Derivation                U.S. Code             Statutes at Large
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(a)................  5 U.S.C. 17b.                 Aug. 14, 1937, ch.
                                                    624, 50 Stat. 640.
                                                   Nov. 22, 1943, ch.
                                                    303, 57 Stat. 591.
(b)................  5 U.S.C. 17c.                 Mar. 28, 1955, ch.
                                                    17, 69 Stat. 14.
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    In subsection (a), the word ``civilian'' is omitted as unnecessary 
because of the definition of ``employee'' in section 2105. The words 
``Executive agency'' are coextensive with and substituted for 
``executive departments and independent establishments of the United 
States'' because of the definition of ``Executive agency'' in section 
105. The words ``the Secretary of a military department with respect to 
an employee of his department'' are inserted to preserve the application 
of the source law. Before enactment of the National Security Act 
Amendments of 1949 (63 Stat. 578), the Department of the Army, the 
Department of the Navy, and the Department of the Air Force were 
Executive departments. The National Security Act Amendments of 1949 
established the Department of Defense as an Executive Department 
including the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, and 
the Department of the Air Force as military departments, not as 
Executive departments. However, the source law for this section, which 
was in effect in 1949, remained applicable to the Secretaries of the 
military departments by virtue of section 12(g) of the National Security 
Act Amendments of 1949 (63 Stat. 591), which is set out in the reviser's 
note for section 301.
    Standard changes are made to conform with the definitions applicable 
and the style of this title as outlined in the preface to the report.
