§ 911. — Acceptance of services of Federal or State officers; application of civil service laws; expenditures for supplies and equipment.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[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and superseded.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.
