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[CITE: 5USC3310]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
                   Subpart B--Employment and Retention
 
            CHAPTER 33--EXAMINATION, SELECTION, AND PLACEMENT
 
        SUBCHAPTER I--EXAMINATION, CERTIFICATION, AND APPOINTMENT
 
Sec. 3310. Preference eligibles; examinations; guards, elevator 
        operators, messengers, and custodians
        
    In examinations for positions of guards, elevator operators, 
messengers, and custodians in the competitive service, competition is 
restricted to preference eligibles as long as preference eligibles are 
available.

(Pub. L. 89-554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 420.)

                      Historical and Revision Notes
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                                                    Revised Statutes and
     Derivation                U.S. Code             Statutes at Large
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                     5 U.S.C. 852 (2d sentence).   June 27, 1944, ch.
                                                    287, Sec.  3
                                                    (proviso), 58 Stat.
                                                    388.
                                                   Aug. 14, 1953, ch.
                                                    485, Sec.  1(a)
                                                    ``Sec. 3 (2d
                                                    sentence)'', 67
                                                    Stat. 581.
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    The words ``in the competitive service'' are added for clarity. The 
reference to ``examinations held prior to December 31, 1954, for 
positions of apprentices'' is omitted as obsolete. Application of this 
section to the excepted service in the executive branch and to the 
government of the District of Columbia, as provided in former section 
858, is carried into section 3320.
    Standard changes are made to conform with the definitions applicable 
and the style of this title as outlined in the preface to the report.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 2302, 3320 of this title; 
title 2 section 1316a; title 3 section 115; title 22 section 1438.
