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§162a Gross Salary of Library of Congress Employees
Title 2 › CHAPTER 5 — LIBRARY OF CONGRESS › § 162a
Summary
Library employees who get honorariums paid from funds other than the Library’s regular government budget cannot have total pay higher than the maximum salary set by Title 5 (chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53).
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Title 2, §162a
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Hereafter the gross salary of any position in the Library which is augmented by payment of an honorarium from other than appropriated funds under terms of section 162 of this title shall not exceed an amount, which when combined with such honorarium, will exceed the maximum salary provided in chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5.
Legislative History
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Editorial Notes
Codification “Chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5” substituted in text for “the Classification Act of 1949” on authority of section 7(b) of Pub. L. 89–554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 631, section 1 of which enacted Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
Amendments
1949—Act Oct. 28, 1949, substituted “Classification Act of 1949” for “Classification Act of 1923”.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
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Act Oct. 28, 1949, ch. 782, cited as a credit to this section, was repealed (subject to a savings clause) by Pub.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, § 8, 80 Stat. 632, 655.
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2 U.S.C. § 162a
Title 2, The Congress
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Aug 21, 2026
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