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[CITE: 5USC3349a]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
                   Subpart B--Employment and Retention
 
            CHAPTER 33--EXAMINATION, SELECTION, AND PLACEMENT
 
          SUBCHAPTER III--DETAILS, VACANCIES, AND APPOINTMENTS
 
Sec. 3349a. Presidential inaugural transitions

    (a) In this section, the term ``transitional inauguration day'' 
means the date on which any person swears or affirms the oath of office 
as President, if such person is not the President on the date preceding 
the date of swearing or affirming such oath of office.
    (b) With respect to any vacancy that exists during the 60-day period 
beginning on a transitional inauguration day, the 210-day period under 
section 3346 or 3348 shall be deemed to begin on the later of the date 
occurring--
        (1) 90 days after such transitional inauguration day; or
        (2) 90 days after the date on which the vacancy occurs.

(Added Pub. L. 105-277, div. C, title I, Sec. 151(b), Oct. 21, 1998, 112 
Stat. 2681-615.)


                             Effective Date

    Section effective 30 days after Oct. 21, 1998, and applicable to any 
office that becomes vacant after such effective date, with certain 
exceptions, see section 151(d) of Pub. L. 105-277, set out as a note 
under section 3345 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 3345, 3348, 3349, 3349b, 
3349c, 3349d of this title.
