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[CITE: 7USC909]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
         CHAPTER 31--RURAL ELECTRIFICATION AND TELEPHONE SERVICE
 
                   SUBCHAPTER I--RURAL ELECTRIFICATION
 
Sec. 909. Administration on nonpolitical basis; dismissal of 
        officers or employees for violating provision
        
    This chapter shall be administered entirely on a nonpartisan basis, 
and in the appointment of officials, the selection of employees, and in 
the promotion of any such officials or employees, no political test or 
qualification shall be permitted or given consideration, but all such 
appointments and promotions shall be given and made on the basis of 
merit and efficiency. If the Secretary herein provided for is found by 
the President of the United States to be guilty of a violation of this 
section, he shall be removed from office by the President, and any 
appointee or selection of officials or employees made by the Secretary 
who is found guilty of a violation of this chapter shall be removed by 
the Secretary.

(May 20, 1936, ch. 432, title I, Sec. 9, 49 Stat. 1366; Oct. 28, 1949, 
ch. 776, Sec. 2, 63 Stat. 948; Pub. L. 103-354, title II, 
Sec. 235(a)(13), Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3221.)


                               Amendments

    1994--Pub. L. 103-354 substituted ``Secretary'' for 
``Administrator'' wherever appearing.
    1949--Act Oct. 28, 1949, inserted ``title I,'' in credit of act May 
20, 1936.
