Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 52 — Foreign Service
§ 3971. Temporary service as principal officer
Statutory text
For such time (in excess of such minimum period as the Secretary of State may establish) as any member of the Service is temporarily in charge of a Foreign Service post during the absence or incapacity of the principal officer, that member shall receive, in addition to the basic salary paid to the member and notwithstanding sections 5535 and 5536 of title 5, an amount equal to that portion (which the Secretary of State may determine to be appropriate) of the difference between such salary and the basic salary provided for the principal officer, or, if there is no principal officer, for the former principal officer.
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.
Pub. L. 96–465 title I § 411 · 94 Stat. 2071
Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 3971
(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 411, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2091.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 411, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2091.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 411. Temporary Service as Principal Officer.— For such Salary. 22 USC 3971. time (in excess of such minimum period as the Secretary of State may establish) as any member of the Service is temporarily in charge of a Foreign Service post during the absence or incapacity of the principal officer, that member shall receive, in addition to the basic salary paid to the member and notwithstanding sections 5535 and 5536 of title 5, United States Code, an amount equal to that portion (which the Secretary of State may determine to be appropriate) of the difference between such salary and the basic salary provided for the principal officer, or, if there is no principal officer, for the former principal officer.
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