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[CITE: 5USC6333]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
                     Subpart E--Attendance and Leave
 
                            CHAPTER 63--LEAVE
 
              SUBCHAPTER III--VOLUNTARY TRANSFERS OF LEAVE
 
Sec. 6333. Receipt and use of transferred leave

    (a)(1) An application to receive donations of leave under this 
subchapter, whether submitted by or on behalf of an employee--
        (A) shall be submitted to the employing agency of the proposed 
    leave recipient; and
        (B) shall include--
            (i) the name, position title, and grade or pay level of the 
        proposed leave recipient;
            (ii) the reasons why transferred leave is needed, including 
        a brief description of the nature, severity, anticipated 
        duration, and, if it is a recurring one, the approximate 
        frequency of the medical emergency involved;
            (iii) if the employing agency so requires, certification 
        from 1 or more physicians, or other appropriate experts, with 
        respect to any matter under clause (ii); and
            (iv) any other information which the employing agency may 
        reasonably require.

    (2) If an agency requires that an employee obtain certification 
under paragraph (1)(B)(iii) from 2 or more sources, the agency shall 
ensure, either by direct payment to the expert involved or by 
reimbursement, that the employee is not required to pay for the expenses 
associated with obtaining certification from more than 1 of such 
sources.
    (3) An employing agency shall approve or disapprove an application 
of a proposed leave recipient for leave under this subchapter, and, to 
the extent practicable, shall notify the proposed leave recipient (or 
other person acting on behalf of the proposed recipient, if appropriate) 
of the decision of the agency, in writing, within 10 days (excluding 
Saturdays, Sundays, and legal public holidays) after receiving such 
application.
    (b) A leave recipient may use annual leave received under this 
subchapter in the same manner and for the same purposes as if such leave 
recipient had accrued that leave under section 6303, except that any 
annual leave, and any sick leave, accrued or accumulated by the leave 
recipient and available for the purpose involved must be exhausted 
before any transferred annual leave may be used.
    (c) Transferred annual leave--
        (1) may accumulate without regard to any limitation under 
    section 6304; and
        (2) may be substituted retroactively for any period of leave 
    without pay, or used to liquidate an indebtedness for any period of 
    advanced leave, which began on or after a date fixed by the 
    employing agency of the employee as the beginning of the medical 
    emergency involved.

(Added Pub. L. 100-566, Sec. 2(a), Oct. 31, 1988, 102 Stat. 2834.)
