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Title 6 — Domestic Security

Part B · Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization

§ 553. Terminations

Statutory text

Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, whenever all the functions vested by law in any agency have been transferred pursuant to this chapter, each position and office the incumbent of which was authorized to receive compensation at the rates prescribed for an office or position at level II, III, IV, or V, of the Executive Schedule, shall terminate.

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. Homeland Security Act of 2002

    Pub. L. 107–296 title XV § 1513 · 116 Stat. 2135

    Enacted · 6 U.S.C. § 553

    (Pub. L. 107–296, title XV, § 1513, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2311.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 107–296, title XV, § 1513, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2311.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 1513. TERMINATIONS. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, whenever all the functions vested by law in any agency have been transferred pursuant to this Act, each position and office the incumbent of which was authorized to receive compensation at the rates prescribed for an office or position at level II, III, IV, or V, of the Executive Schedule, shall terminate.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 107–296, , 116 Stat. 2135, known as the Homeland Security Act of 2002, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 101 of this title and Tables.

Levels II, III, IV, and V, of the Executive Schedule, referred to in text, are set out in sections 5313, 5314, 5315, and 5316, respectively, of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

Credits

(Pub. L. 107–296, title XV, § 1513, , 116 Stat. 2311.)

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