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[CITE: 8USC1353a]

 
                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
 
                 CHAPTER 12--IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY
 
                       SUBCHAPTER II--IMMIGRATION
 
                         Part IX--Miscellaneous
 
Sec. 1353a. Officers and employees; overtime services; extra 
        compensation; length of working day
        
    The Attorney General shall fix a reasonable rate of extra 
compensation for overtime services of immigration officers and employees 
of the Immigration and Naturalization Service who may be required to 
remain on duty between the hours of five o'clock postmeridian and eight 
o'clock antemeridian, or on Sundays or holidays, to perform duties in 
connection with the examination and landing of passengers and crews of 
steamships, trains, airplanes, or other vehicles, arriving in the United 
States from a foreign port by water, land, or air, such rates to be 
fixed on a basis of one-half day's additional pay for each two hours or 
fraction thereof of at least one hour that the overtime extends beyond 
five o'clock postmeridian (but not to exceed two and one-half days' pay 
for the full period from five o'clock postmeridian to eight o'clock 
antemeridian) and two additional days' pay for Sunday and holiday duty; 
in those ports where the customary working hours are other than those 
heretofore mentioned, the Attorney General is vested with authority to 
regulate the hours of such employees so as to agree with the prevailing 
working hours in said ports, but nothing contained in this section shall 
be construed in any manner to affect or alter the length of a working 
day for such employees or the overtime pay herein fixed.

(Mar. 2, 1931, ch. 368, Sec. 1, 46 Stat. 1467; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, 
Sec. 14, June 10, 1933; 1940 Reorg. Plan No. V, eff. June 14, 1940, 5 
F.R. 2223, 54 Stat. 1238; June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title IV, 
Sec. 402(i)(1), 66 Stat. 278.)

                          Codification

    Section was not enacted as part of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act which comprises this chapter.
    Ex. Ord. No. 6166, is authority for the substitution of 
``Immigration and Naturalization Service'' for ``Immigration Service''; 
and 1940 Reorg. Plan No. V. is authority for the substitution of 
``Attorney General'' for ``Secretary of Labor.'' See note set out under 
section 1551 of this title.
    Section was formerly classified to section 342c of Title 5 prior to 
the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization 
and Employees, by Pub. L. 89-554, Sec. 1, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 378. 
Prior thereto, section was classified to section 109a of this title.


                               Amendments

    1952--Act June 27, 1952, substituted ``immigration officers'' for 
``inspectors''.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Functions of all other officers of Department of Justice and 
functions of all agencies and employees of such Department, with a few 
exceptions, transferred to Attorney General, with power vested in him to 
authorize their performance or the performance of any of his functions 
by any of such officers, agencies, and employees by 1950 Reorg. Plan No. 
2, Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3173, 64 Stat. 1261, set out 
in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. See 
sections 509 and 510 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 1353a, 1353d of this title; 
title 5 section 5549.
