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[CITE: 5USC5105]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
                      Subpart D--Pay and Allowances
 
                       CHAPTER 51--CLASSIFICATION
 
Sec. 5105. Standards for classification of positions

    (a) The Office of Personnel Management, after consulting the 
agencies, shall prepare standards for placing positions in their proper 
classes and grades. The Office may make such inquiries or investigations 
of the duties, responsibilities, and qualification requirements of 
positions as it considers necessary for this purpose. The agencies, on 
request of the Office, shall furnish information for and cooperate in 
the preparation of the standards. In the standards, which shall be 
published in such form as the Office may determine, the Office shall--
        (1) define the various classes of positions in terms of duties, 
    responsibilities, and qualification requirements;
        (2) establish the official class titles; and
        (3) set forth the grades in which the classes have been placed 
    by the Office.

    (b) The Office, after consulting the agencies to the extent 
considered necessary, shall revise, supplement, or abolish existing 
standards, or prepare new standards, so that, as nearly as may be 
practicable, positions existing at any given time will be covered by 
current published standards.
    (c) The official class titles established under subsection (a)(2) of 
this section shall be used for personnel, budget, and fiscal purposes. 
However, this requirement does not prevent the use of organizational or 
other titles for internal administration, public convenience, law 
enforcement, or similar purposes.

(Pub. L. 89-554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 452; Pub. L. 95-454, title IX, 
Sec. 906(a)(2), (3), Oct. 13, 1978, 92 Stat. 1224.)

                      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. 1094.                Oct. 28, 1949, ch.
                                                    782, Sec.  401, 63
                                                    Stat. 957.
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    The section is restated for clarity.
    In subsection (b), the requirement that the Commission keep the 
standards up to date is omitted as included in the requirement that the 
Commission revise, supplement, or abolish existing standards, or prepare 
new standards so as to keep them current as nearly as practicable.
    Standard changes are made to conform with the definitions applicable 
and the style of this title as outlined in the preface to the report.


                               Amendments

    1978--Subsecs. (a), (b). Pub. L. 95-454 substituted ``Office of 
Personnel Management'' and ``Office'' for ``Civil Service Commission'' 
and ``Commission'', respectively, wherever appearing.


                    Effective Date of 1978 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 95-454 effective 90 days after Oct. 13, 1978, 
see section 907 of Pub. L. 95-454, set out as a note under section 1101 
of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 5101 of this title.
