Chapter 33: EXAMINATION, SELECTION, AND PLACEMENT
Subchapter I: EXAMINATION, CERTIFICATION, AND APPOINTMENT
- Section 3301: Civil service; generally
- Section 3302: Competitive service; rules
- Section 3303: Competitive service; recommendations of Senators or Representatives
- Section 3304: Competitive service; examinations
- Section 3304a: Competitive service; career appointment after 3 years’ temporary service
- Section 3305: Competitive service; examinations; when held
- [Section 3306: Repealed. Pub. L. 95–228, § 1, Feb. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 25]
- Section 3307: Competitive service; maximum-age entrance requirements; exceptions
- Section 3308: Competitive service; examinations; educational requirements prohibited; exceptions
- Section 3309: Preference eligibles; examinations; additional points for
- Section 3310: Preference eligibles; examinations; guards, elevator operators, messengers, and custodians
- Section 3311: Preference eligibles; examinations; crediting experience
- Section 3312: Preference eligibles; physical qualifications; waiver
- Section 3313: Competitive service; registers of eligibles
- Section 3314: Registers; preference eligibles who resigned
- Section 3315: Registers; preference eligibles furloughed or separated
- [Section 3315a: Repealed. Pub. L. 93–416, § 22(c), Sept. 7, 1974, 88 Stat. 1150]
- Section 3316: Preference eligibles; reinstatement
- Section 3317: Competitive service; certification from registers
- Section 3318: Competitive service; selection from certificates
- Section 3319: Alternative ranking and selection procedures
- Section 3320: Excepted service; government of the District of Columbia; selection
- Section 3321: Competitive service; probationary period
- Section 3322: Voluntary separation before resolution of personnel investigation
- Section 3323: Automatic separations; reappointment; reemployment of annuitants
- Section 3324: Appointments to positions classified above GS–15
- Section 3325: Appointments to scientific and professional positions
- Section 3326: Appointments of retired members of the armed forces to positions in the Department of Defense
- Section 3327: Civil service employment information
- Section 3328: Selective Service registration
- Section 3329: Appointments of military reserve technicians to positions in the competitive service
- Section 3330: Government-wide list of vacant positions
- Section 3330a: Preference eligibles; administrative redress
- Section 3330b: Preference eligibles; judicial redress
- Section 3330c: Preference eligibles; remedy
- Section 3330d: Appointment of military spouses
- Section 3330e: Review of official personnel file of former Federal employees before rehiring
Subchapter III: DETAILS, VACANCIES, AND APPOINTMENTS
- Section 3341: Details; within Executive or military departments
- [Section 3342: Repealed. Pub. L. 102–378, § 2(13)(A), Oct. 2, 1992, 106 Stat. 1347]
- Section 3343: Details; to international organizations
- Section 3344: Details; administrative law judges
- Section 3345: Acting officer
- Section 3346: Time limitation
- Section 3347: Exclusivity
- Section 3348: Vacant office
- Section 3349: Reporting of vacancies
- Section 3349a: Presidential inaugural transitions
- Section 3349b: Holdover provisions
- Section 3349c: Exclusion of certain officers
- Section 3349d: Notification of intent to nominate during certain recesses or adjournments
Subchapter V: PROMOTION
- Section 3361: Promotion; competitive service; examination
- Section 3362: Promotion; effect of incentive award
- Section 3363: Preference eligibles; promotion; physical qualifications; waiver
- [Section 3364: Repealed. Pub. L. 94–183, § 2(6), Dec. 31, 1975, 89 Stat. 1057]
Subchapter VIII: APPOINTMENT, REASSIGNMENT, TRANSFER, AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE SENIOR EXECUTIVE SERVICE
- Section 3391: Definitions
- Section 3392: General appointment provisions
- Section 3393: Career appointments
- [Section 3393a: Repealed. Pub. L. 107–296, title XIII, § 1321(a)(1)(B), Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2296]
- Section 3394: Noncareer and limited appointments
- Section 3395: Reassignment and transfer within the Senior Executive Service
- Section 3396: Development for and within the Senior Executive Service
- Section 3397: Regulations