Title 5, Government Organization and EmployeesRelease 119-102

§5351 Definitions

Title 5 › PART III — EMPLOYEES › Subpart D — Pay and Allowances › CHAPTER 53 — PAY RATES AND SYSTEMS › SUBCHAPTER V — STUDENT-EMPLOYEES › § 5351

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Defines two terms. agency means an Executive agency, a military department, or the District of Columbia government. student-employee means certain medical-related students placed in agency-run hospitals, clinics, or labs, and other students mainly training there if the agency head and the Office of Personnel Management approve.

Full Legal Text

Title 5, §5351

Government Organization and Employees, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

For the purpose of this subchapter—
(1)“agency” means an Executive agency, a military department, and the government of the District of Columbia; and
(2)“student-employee” means—
(A)a student nurse, medical or dental intern, resident-in-training, student dietitian, student physical therapist, and student occupational therapist, assigned or attached to a hospital, clinic, or medical or dental laboratory operated by an agency; and
(B)any other student-employee, assigned or attached primarily for training purposes to a hospital, clinic, or medical or dental laboratory operated by an agency, who is designated by the head of the agency with the approval of the Office of Personnel Management.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

DerivationU.S. CodeRevised Statutes andStatutes at Large 5 U.S.C. 1052.Aug. 4, 1947, ch. 452, § 2, 61 Stat. 727. The section is restated in definition form. In paragraph (1), the words “an Executive agency, a military department” are coextensive with and substituted for “department, agency, or instrumentality of the Federal Government” in view of the definitions in section 105 and 102. The exception from the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, is omitted as obsolete and superseded by the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, which is carried into this title. The present exception from the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, is carried into section 5102(c)(16). Standard changes are made to conform with the definitions applicable and the style of this title as outlined in the preface to the report.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1978—Par. (2)(B). Pub. L. 95–454 substituted “Office of Personnel Management” for “Civil Service Commission”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1978 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 95–454 effective 90 days after Oct. 13, 1978, see section 907 of Pub. L. 95–454, set out as a note under section 1101 of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

5 U.S.C. § 5351

Title 5, Government Organization and Employees

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102