5 U.S.C. § 9811: Travel and transportation…

Summary

The Administrator can pay travel, transportation, and relocation costs for certain new appointees to the Administration. A new appointee is someone newly hired or brought back into the Administration in certain appointment types (such as career, term, some excepted‑service roles, Senior Executive Service, appointments under section 20113(b)(1) of title 51, or positions under sections 3104 or 5108), or a student trainee converted to such an appointment. Payments follow the same rules as sections 5724, 5724a, 5724b, and 5724c for employees transferred in the interests of the United States Government.

Title 5, §9811

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(a)In this section, the term “new appointee” means—

(1)a person newly appointed or reinstated to Federal service to the Administration to—

(A)a career or career-conditional appointment or an excepted service appointment to a continuing position;

(B)a term appointment;

(C)an excepted service appointment that provides for noncompetitive conversion to a career or career-conditional appointment;

(D)a career or limited term Senior Executive Service appointment;

(E)an appointment made under section 20113(b)(1) of title 51;

(F)an appointment to a position established under section 3104; or

(G)an appointment to a position established under section 5108; or

(2)a student trainee who, upon completion of academic work, is converted to an appointment in the Administration that is identified in paragraph (1) in accordance with an appropriate authority.

(b)The Administrator may pay the travel, transportation, and relocation expenses of a new appointee to the same extent, in the same manner, and subject to the same conditions as the payment of such expenses under section 5724, 5724a, 5724b, and 5724c to an employee transferred in the interests of the United States Government.

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Amendments

2010—Subsec. (a)(1)(E). Pub. L. 111–314 substituted “section 20113(b)(1) of title 51” for “section 203(c)(2)(A) of the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 (42 U.S.C. 2473(c)(2)(A))”.

§9811 Travel and Transportation Expenses of Certain New Appointees

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Title 5, §9811

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