§2083 — Title 22 Foreign Relations and Intercourse | U.S. Code

Summary

The President must appoint a Commissioner for Interama in the named department or agency. Under the department head’s direction, the Commissioner must carry out the duties the President assigns to run the program in this chapter. To do that work, the department head can hire staff outside the normal civil service rules, but cannot pay them more than people in comparable civil service jobs. The head can also hire temporary help under the law for such hires, sign contracts, obtain exhibits (buy, rent, build, move, insure, display, maintain, and take down them and their equipment), pay other needed expenses, and accept donations or loans of money, property, or services.

Title 22, §2083

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(a)There shall be in the designated department or agency a Commissioner for Interama who shall be appointed by the President. Subject to the direction of the head of the designated department or agency, the Commissioner for Interama shall perform such duties as the President may prescribe to carry out this chapter.

(b)In order to carry out the provisions of this chapter, the head of the designated department or agency is authorized—

(1)to appoint and fix the compensation of such persons as he deems necessary without regard to the civil service laws and chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5; except that no person so appointed shall receive compensation at a rate in excess of that received by persons under chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5 for the performance of comparable duties;

(2)to procure temporary and intermittent services in accordance with the provisions of section 3109 of title 5;

(3)to enter into contracts;

(4)to select, purchase, rent, construct, or otherwise acquire exhibits, including materials and equipment therefor, and to provide for the transportation, insurance, display, maintenance, and dismantling thereof;

(5)to incur such other expenses as may be necessary; and

(6)to accept donations of money, property, and services and the loan of property.

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Editorial Notes

Codification In subsec. (b)(1), (2), “chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5” and “section 3109 of title 5” substituted for “the Classification Act of 1949” and “section 15 of the Administrative Expenses Act of 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a)”, respectively, on authority of Pub. L. 89–554, § 7(b), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 631, the first section of which enacted Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

Amendments

1967—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 90–83 struck out provision that Commissioner of Interama receive compensation at a rate prescribed for level IV of the Federal Executive Salary Schedule.

§2083 Commissioner for Interama; procurement and appointment of personnel; powers and duties

Summary

Title 22, §2083

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