Title 7 — Agriculture
Chapter 31 — Rural Electrification and Telephone Service
§ 909. Administration on nonpolitical basis; dismissal of officers or employees for violating provision
Statutory text
This chapter shall be administered entirely on a nonpartisan basis, and in the appointment of officials, the selection of employees, and in the promotion of any such officials or employees, no political test or qualification shall be permitted or given consideration, but all such appointments and promotions shall be given and made on the basis of merit and efficiency. If the Secretary herein provided for is found by the President of the United States to be guilty of a violation of this section, he shall be removed from office by the President, and any appointee or selection of officials or employees made by the Secretary who is found guilty of a violation of this chapter shall be removed by the Secretary.
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. 74–432 · 49 Stat. 513
Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 909
May 20, 1936, ch. 432, title I, § 9, 49 Stat. 1366
Source evidence
Code source credit
May 20, 1936, ch. 432, title I, § 9, 49 Stat. 1366Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994
Pub. L. 103–354 title II § 235(a)(13) · 108 Stat. 3178
Substituted · 7 U.S.C. § 909
Pub. L. 103–354 substituted “Secretary” for “Administrator” wherever appearing
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 103–354 substituted “Secretary” for “Administrator” wherever appearing.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(13) except as otherwise provided in this subsection, by striking “Administrator” each place it appears in such Act and inserting “Secretary”.
1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Amendments1949–1994 · 2 rounds
1994
Pub. L. 103–354 substituted “Secretary” for “Administrator” wherever appearing.
1949
Act , inserted “title I,” in credit of act .
Credits
1936–1994 · 3 acts
- 1936May 20, 1936, ch. 432, title I, § 9, 49 Stat. 1366
- 1949Oct. 28, 1949, ch. 776, § 2, 63 Stat. 948
- 1994Pub. L. 103–354, title II, § 235(a)(13), , 108 Stat. 3221.
Show as published
(May 20, 1936, ch. 432, title I, § 9, 49 Stat. 1366; Oct. 28, 1949, ch. 776, § 2, 63 Stat. 948; Pub. L. 103–354, title II, § 235(a)(13), , 108 Stat. 3221.)