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Title 2 — The Congress

Chapter 53 — House of Representatives Members

§ 5323. Pay of clerical assistants as affected by death of Senator or Representative

Statutory text

When a Senator 1 or Member of the House of Representatives or Delegate or Resident Commissioner dies during his term of office the clerical assistants appointed by him, and then borne upon the pay rolls of the Senate or House of Representatives, shall be continued on such pay rolls in their respective positions and be paid for a period not longer than one month: Provided, That this shall not apply to clerical assistants of standing committees of the Senate or House of Representatives, when their service otherwise would continue beyond such period.

Footnotes

  1. 1 See Inapplicability to Employees of Senate note below.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 69–168 § 1 · 44 Stat. 304

    Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 5323

    (Feb. 23, 1927, ch. 168, § 1, 44 Stat. 1148.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Feb. 23, 1927, ch. 168, § 1, 44 Stat. 1148.)

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Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 92a of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Inapplicability to Employees of Senate

Pub. L. 98–473, title I, § 123A(a), , 98 Stat. 1969, provided that this section shall not apply to any employee of the Senate.

Credits

(Feb. 23, 1927, ch. 168, § 1, 44 Stat. 1148.)

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