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Title 43 — Public Lands

Chapter 31 — Department of the Interior

§ 1469. Employment and compensation of personnel to perform work occasioned by emergencies

Statutory text

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, persons may be employed or otherwise contracted with by the Secretary of the Interior to perform work occasioned by emergencies such as fire, flood, storm, or any other unavoidable cause and may be compensated at regular rates of pay without regard to Sundays, Federal holidays, and the regular workweek.

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. 94–165 title I § 108 · 89 Stat. 977

    Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 1469

    (Pub. L. 94–165, title I, § 108, Dec. 23, 1975, 89 Stat. 990.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 94–165, title I, § 108, Dec. 23, 1975, 89 Stat. 990.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 108. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, persons have heretofore and may hereafter be employed or otherwise contracted with by the Secretary of the Interior to perform work occasioned by emergencies such as fire, flood, storm, or any other unavoidable cause and may be compensated at regular rates of pay without regard to Sundays, Federal holidays, and the regular workweek.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 94–165, title I, § 108, , 89 Stat. 990.)

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