§ 717q. — Appointment of officers and employees.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 15USC717q]
TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
CHAPTER 15B--NATURAL GAS
Sec. 717q. Appointment of officers and employees
The Commission is authorized to appoint and fix the compensation of
such officers, attorneys, examiners, and experts as may be necessary for
carrying out its functions under this chapter; and the Commission may,
subject to civil-service laws, appoint such other officers and employees
as are necessary for carrying out such functions and fix their salaries
in accordance with chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title
5.
(June 21, 1938, ch. 556, Sec. 18, 52 Stat. 831; Oct. 28, 1949, ch. 782,
title XI, Sec. 1106(a), 63 Stat. 972.)
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 that authorized the Commission to appoint and fix the
compensation of such officers, attorneys, examiners, and experts as may
be necessary for carrying out its functions under this chapter ``without
regard to the provisions of other laws applicable to the employment and
compensation of officers and employees of the United States'' are
omitted as obsolete and superseded.
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the Classification Act of 1949, 63 Stat. 972, 973, repealed the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repealed by Pub.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,
Government Organization and Employees. Section 5102 of Title 5 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.
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
the Act of 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.
``Chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5''
substituted in text for ``the Classification Act of 1949, as amended''
on authority of Pub. L. 89-554, Sec. 7(b), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 631,
the first section of which enacted Title 5.
Amendments
1949--Act Oct. 28, 1949, substituted ``Classification Act of 1949''
for ``Classification Act of 1923''.
Repeals
Act Oct. 28, 1949, ch. 782, cited as a credit to this section, was
repealed (subject to a savings clause) by Pub. L. 89-554, Sept. 6, 1966,
Sec. 8, 80 Stat. 632, 655.
Transfer of Functions
Federal Power Commission terminated and functions, personnel,
property, funds, etc., transferred to the Secretary of Energy (except
for certain functions transferred to the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission) by sections 7151(b), 7171(a), 7172(a)(1), 7291, and 7293 of
Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare.
For transfer of functions of Federal Power Commission, with certain
reservations, to Chairman of such Commission, see Reorg. Plan No. 9 of
1950, Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3175, 64 Stat. 1265, set
out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
