§ 1627. — Appointment of personnel; compensation; employment of specialists.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 7USC1627]
TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
CHAPTER 38--DISTRIBUTION AND MARKETING OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS
SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 1627. Appointment of personnel; compensation; employment of
specialists
The Secretary of Agriculture shall have the power to appoint,
remove, and fix, in accordance with existing law, the compensation of
such officers and employees, and to make such expenditures as he deems
necessary, including expenditures for rent outside the District of
Columbia, travel, supplies, books, equipment, and such other
expenditures as may be necessary to the administration of this chapter:
Provided, That the Secretary of Agriculture may appoint any technically
qualified person, firm, or organization by contract or otherwise on a
temporary basis and for a term not to exceed six months in any fiscal
year to perform research, inspection, classification, technical, or
other special services, without regard to the civil-service laws.
(Aug. 14, 1946, ch. 966, title II, Sec. 208, 60 Stat. 1091.)
References in Text
The civil-service laws, referred to in text, are set forth in Title
5, Government Organization and Employees. See, particularly, section
3301 et seq. of Title 5.
Codification
Provisions that authorized the Secretary of Agriculture to ``fix the
compensation'' of any technically qualified person, firm, or
organization by contract or otherwise on a temporary basis and for a
term not to exceed six months in any fiscal year to perform research,
inspection, classification, technical or other special services, without
regard to the ``Classification Act of 1923, as amended'' were omitted as
obsolete. Sections 1202 and 1204 of the Classification Act of 1949, 63
Stat. 972, 973 repealed the 1923 Act and all laws or parts of laws
inconsistent with the 1949 Act. While section 1106(a) of the 1949 Act
provided that references in other laws to the 1923 Act should be held
and considered to mean the 1949 Act, it did not have the effect of
continuing the exceptions contained in this subsection because of
section 1106(b) which provided that the application of the 1949 Act to
any position, officer, or employee shall not be affected by section
1106(a). The Classification Act of 1949 was repealed by Pub. L. 89-554,
Sec. 8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 632 (of which section 1 revised and
enacted Title 5, U.S.C., into law). Section 5102 of Title 5, now
contains the applicability provisions of the 1949 Act, and section 5103
of Title 5 authorizes the Office of Personnel Management to determine
the applicability to specific positions and employees.
