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[CITE: 7USC911]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
         CHAPTER 31--RURAL ELECTRIFICATION AND TELEPHONE SERVICE
 
                   SUBCHAPTER I--RURAL ELECTRIFICATION
 
Sec. 911. Acceptance of services of Federal or State officers; 
        application of civil service laws; expenditures for supplies and 
        equipment
        
    In order to carry out the provisions of this chapter the Secretary 
may accept and utilize such voluntary and uncompensated services of 
Federal, State, and local officers and employees as are available, and 
he may appoint and fix the compensation of attorneys, engineers, and 
experts and he may, subject to the civil-service laws, appoint such 
other officers and employees as he may find necessary and prescribe 
their duties. The Secretary is authorized, from sums appropriated 
pursuant to section 906 of this title, to make such expenditures 
(including expenditures for personal services; supplies and equipment; 
lawbooks and books of reference; directories and periodicals; travel 
expenses; rental at the seat of government and elsewhere; the purchase, 
operation, or maintenance of passenger-carrying vehicles; and printing 
and binding) as are appropriate and necessary to carry out the 
provisions of this chapter.

(May 20, 1936, ch. 432, title I, Sec. 11, 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.)

                       References in Text

    The civil service laws, referred to in text, are set forth in Title 
5, Government Organization and Employees. See, particularly, section 
3301 et seq. of Title 5.

                          Codification

    Provisions which authorized the appointment and fixing of 
compensation of attorneys, engineers, and experts ``without regard to 
the provisions of the civil service laws applicable to officers and 
employees of the United States'' were omitted from the Code as obsolete 
and superseded. Such appointments are now subject to the civil service 
laws unless specifically excepted by those laws or by laws enacted 
subsequent to Executive Order 8743, Apr. 23, 1941, issued by the 
President pursuant to act Nov. 26, 1940, ch. 919, title I, Sec. 1, 54 
Stat. 1211, which covered most excepted positions into the classified 
(competitive) civil service. The Order is set out as a note under 
section 3301 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. As to 
the compensation of such personnel, sections 1202 and 1204 of the 
Classification Act of 1949, 63 Stat. 972, 973, repealed the 
Classification Act of 1923 and all other laws or parts of laws 
inconsistent with the 1949 Act. The Classification Act of 1949 was 
repealed by Pub. L. 89-554, Sept. 6, 1966, Sec. 8(a), 80 Stat. 632, and 
reenacted as chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of Title 5. 
Section 5102 of Title 5 now contains the applicability provisions of the 
1949 Act, and section 5103 of Title 5 authorizes the Office of Personnel 
Management to determine the applicability to specific positions and 
employees.


                               Amendments

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