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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Chapter 52 — Foreign Service

§ 3985. Temporary details

Statutory text

A period of duty of not more than six months in duration by a member of the Service shall be considered a temporary detail and shall not be considered an assignment within the meaning of this subchapter.

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. 96–465 title I § 505 · 94 Stat. 2071

    Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 3985

    (Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 505, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2094.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 505, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2094.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 505. Temporary Details.— A period of duty of not more than six months in duration by a member of the Service shall be considered a temporary detail and shall not be considered an assignment within the meaning of this chapter.

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(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 505, , 94 Stat. 2094.)

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