5911. Quarters and facilities; employees in the United States. 3912. Quarters in Government owned or rented buildings; employees in foreign countries. 5913. Official residence expenses. SUBCHAPTER III-OVERSEAS DIFFERENTIALS AND ALLOWANCES 5921. Definitions. 5922. General provisions. 5923. Quarters allowances. 5924. Cost-of-living allowances. 5925. Post differentials. 5926. Compensatory time off at certain posts in foreign areas. 3927. Advances of pay. 5928 Danger pay allowance. SUBCHAPTER IV-MISCELLANEOUS ALLOWANCES 5941. Allowances based on living costs and conditions of environment; employees stationed outside continental United States or in Alaska. 5942. Allowance based on duty at remote worksites. 5943. Foreign currency appreciation allowances. 5944. Illness and burial expenses; native employees in foreign countries. 5945. Notary public commission expenses. 3946. Membership fees; expenses of attendance at meetings; limitations. 5947. Quarters, subsistence, and allowances for employees of the Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army, engaged in floating plant operations. 5948. Physicians comparability allowances. (309) SUBCHAPTER I-UNIFORMS § 5901. Uniform allowances (a) There is authorized to be appropriated annually to each agency of the Government of the United States, including a Government owned corporation, and of the government of the District of Columbia, on a showing of necessity or desirability, an amount not to exceed $125 multiplied by the number of employees of the agency who are required by regulation or statute to wear a prescribed uniform in the performance of official duties and who are not being furnished with the uniform. The head of the agency concerned, out of funds made available by the appropriation, shall (1) furnish to each of these employees a uniform at a cost not to exceed $125 a year; or (2) pay to each of these employees an allowance for a uniform not to exceed $125 a year. The allowance may be paid only at the times and in the amounts authorized by the regulations prescribed under section 5903 of this title. When the agency pays direct to the uniform vendor, the head of the agency may deduct a service charge of not more than 4 percent. (b) When the furnishing of a uniform or the payment of a uniform allowance is authorized under another statute or regulation existing on September 1, 1954, the head of the agency concerned may continue. the furnishing of the uniform or the payment of the uniform allowance under that statute or regulation, but in that event a uniform may not be furnished or allowance paid under this section. (c) An allowance paid under this section is not wages within the meaning of section 409 of title 42 or chapters 21 and 24 of title 26. (Pub. L. 89-554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 508, amended Pub. L. 90-83, § 1 (39), Sept. 11, 1967, 81 Stat. 206.) § 5902. Increase in maximum uniform allowance Notwithstanding section 5901 of this title, each of the respective maximum uniform allowances in effect on April 1, 1966, for the respective categories of employees to whom uniform allowances are paid under section 5901 of this title are increased, subject to the maximum allowance authorized by section 5901 of this title, as follows: (1) If the maximum uniform allowance is $100 or more, it is increased by 25 percent. (2) If the maximum uniform allowance is $75 or more but less than $100, it is increased by 30 percent. (3) If the maximum uniform allowance is $50 or more but less than $75, it is increased by 35 percent. (4) If the maximum uniform allowance is less than $50, it is increased by 40 percent. The maximum uniform allowances, as in effect on April 1, 1966, and as increased by this section, may not be reduced. (Added Pub. L. 9083, § 1 (40) (A), Sept. 11, 1967, 81 Stat. 206.) $5903. Regulations The President shall prescribe regulations necessary for the uniform administration of this subchapter. (Added Pub. L. 90-83, § 1 (40) (A), Sept. 11, 1967, 81 Stat. 206; amended Pub. L. 96–54, Aug. 14, 1979, 93 Stat. 381.) SUBCHAPTER II-QUARTERS § 5911. Quarters and facilities; employees in the United States (a) For the purpose of this section (1) "Government" means the Government of the United States; (2) "agency" means an Executive agency, but does not include the Tennessee Valley Authority; (3) "employee" means an employee of an agency; (4) "United States" means the several States, the District of Columbia, and the territories and possessions of the United States including the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; (5) "quarters" means quarters owned or leased by the Government; and (6) "facilities" means household furniture and equipment, garage space, utilities, subsistence, and laundry service. (b) The head of an agency may provide, directly or by contract, an employee stationed in the United States with quarters and facilities, when conditions of employment or of availability of quarters warrant the action. (c) Rental rates for quarters provided for an employee under subsection (b) of this section or occupied on a rental basis by an employee or member of a uniformed service under any other provision of statute, and charges for facilities made available in connection with the occupancy of the quarters, shall be based on the reasonable value of the quarters and facilities to the employee or member concerned, in the circumstances under which the quarters and facilities are provided, occupied, or made available. The amounts of the rates and charges shall be paid by, or deducted from the pay of, the employee or member of a uniformed service, or otherwise charged against him in accordance with law. The amounts of payroll deductions for the rates and charges shall remain in the applicable appropriation or fund. When payment of the rates and charges is made by other than payroll deductions, the amounts of payment shall be credited to the Government as provided by law. (d) When, as an incidental service in support of a program of the Government, quarters and facilities are provided by appropriate authority of the Government to an individual other than an employee or member of a uniformed service, the rates and charges therefor shall be determined in accordance with this section. The amounts of payment of the rates and charges shall be credited to the Government as provided by law. (e) The head of an agency may not require an employee or member of a uniformed service to occupy quarters on a rental basis, unless the agency head determines that necessary service cannot be rendered, or that property of the Government cannot adequately be protected, otherwise. (f) The President may prescribe regulations governing the provision, occupancy, and availability of quarters and facilities, the determination of rates and charges therefor, and other related matters, necessary and appropriate to carry out this section. The head of each agency may prescribe regulations, not inconsistent with the regulations of the President, necessary and appropriate to carry out the functions of the agency head under this section. (g) Subsection (c) of this section does not repeal or modify any provision of statute authorizing the provision of quarters or facilities, either without charge or at rates or charges specifically fixed by statute. (Pub. L. 89-554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 508.) § 5912. Quarters in Government owned or rented buildings; employees in foreign countries Under regulations prescribed by the head of the agency concerned and approved by the President, an employee who is a citizen of the United States permanently stationed in a foreign country may be furnished, without cost to him, living quarters, including heat, fuel, and light, in a Government owned or rented building. The rented quarters may be furnished only within the limits of appropriations made therefor. (Pub. L. 89-554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 509.) $5913. Official residence expenses (a) For the purpose of this section, "agency" has the meaning given it by section 5721 of this title. (b) Under such regulations as the President may prescribe, funds available to an agency for administrative expenses may be alloted to posts in foreign countries to defray the unusual expenses incident to the operation and maintenance of official residences suitable for (1) the chief representatives of the United States at the posts; and (2) such other senior officials of the Government of the United States as the President may designate. (Pub. L. 89-544, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 510.) |