§ 943. — Special provisions governing telephone bank as a Federal Agency until conversion of ownership, control, and operation.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 7USC943]
TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
CHAPTER 31--RURAL ELECTRIFICATION AND TELEPHONE SERVICE
SUBCHAPTER IV--RURAL TELEPHONE BANK
Sec. 943. Special provisions governing telephone bank as a
Federal agency until conversion of ownership, control, and
operation
Until the ownership, control, and operation of the telephone bank is
converted as provided in section 950(a) of this title and not
thereafter--
(a) Supervision and direction of Secretary of Agriculture;
free postage and priority of debts restrictions
the telephone bank shall be an agency of the United States and
shall be subject to the supervision and direction of the Secretary
of Agriculture (hereinafter called the Secretary): Provided,
however, That the telephone bank shall at no time be entitled to
transmission of its mail free of postage, nor shall it have the
priority of the United States in the payment of debts out of
bankrupt, insolvent, and decedents' estates;
(b) Use of facilities and services of employees of Secretary
of Agriculture
in order to perform its responsibilities under this subchapter,
the telephone bank may partially or jointly utilize the facilities
and the services of employees of the Secretary, without cost to the
telephone bank;
(c) Wholly owned Government corporation
the telephone bank shall be subject to the provisions of chapter
91 of title 31, in the same manner and to the same extent as if it
were included in the definition of ``wholly owned Government
corporation'' as set forth in section 9101 of title 31;
(d) Appointment and compensation of personnel
the telephone bank may without regard to the civil service \1\
classification laws appoint and fix the compensation of such
officers and employees of the telephone bank as it may deem
necessary;
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\1\ So in original. The word ``and'' probably should appear after
``civil service''.
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(e) Tort claims and litigation
the telephone bank shall be subject to the provisions of
sections 517, 519, and 2679 of title 28.
(May 20, 1936, ch. 432, title IV, Sec. 403, as added Pub. L. 92-12,
Sec. 2, May 7, 1971, 85 Stat. 31; amended Pub. L. 103-354, title II,
Sec. 235(a)(9), Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3221.)
References in Text
The civil service classification laws, referred to in subsec. (d),
probably should refer to civil service and classification laws. The
civil service laws are set forth in Title 5, Government Organization and
Employees. See, particularly, section 3301 et seq. of Title 5. The
classification laws are set forth in chapter 51 and subchapter III of
chapter 53 of Title 5.
Codification
In subsec. (c), ``chapter 91 of title 31'' and ``section 9101 of
title 31'' substituted for ``the Government Corporation Control Act, as
amended (31 U.S.C. 841 et seq.)'' and ``section 101 of said Act (31
U.S.C. 846)'', respectively, on authority of Pub. L. 97-258, Sec. 4(b),
Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1067, the first section of which enacted Title
31, Money and Finance.
Amendments
1994--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 103-354 substituted ``Secretary'' for
``Rural Electrification Administration or of any other agency of the
Department of Agriculture''.
Effective Date
Section effective May 7, 1971, see section 7 of Pub. L. 92-12, set
out as a note under section 921a of this title.
