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[CITE: 5USC6328]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
                     Subpart E--Attendance and Leave
 
                            CHAPTER 63--LEAVE
 
                     SUBCHAPTER II--OTHER PAID LEAVE
 
Sec. 6328. Absence in connection with funerals of fellow Federal 
        law enforcement officers
        
    A Federal law enforcement officer or a Federal firefighter may be 
excused from duty without loss of, or reduction in, pay or leave to 
which such officer is otherwise entitled, or credit for time or service, 
or performance or efficiency rating, to attend the funeral of a fellow 
Federal law enforcement officer or Federal firefighter, who was killed 
in the line of duty. When so excused from duty, attendance at such 
service shall for the purposes of section 1345(a) of title 31, be 
considered to be an official duty of the officer or firefighter.

(Added Pub. L. 103-329, title VI, Sec. 642, Sept. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 
2432, Sec. 6327; renumbered Sec. 6328, Pub. L. 106-56, Sec. 1(c)(1), 
Sept. 24, 1999, 113 Stat. 407.)

                          Codification

    Section 642 of Pub. L. 103-329, which directed that this section be 
added ``following the word `Forces' in section 6326'' was executed by 
adding the section after section 6327, as added by section 629(a)(1) of 
Pub. L. 103-329, to reflect the probable intent of Congress.


                               Amendments

    1999--Pub. L. 106-56 renumbered section 6327 of this title as this 
section.
