§ 5102. Definitions; application
(a)
For the purpose of this chapter—
(3)
“position” means the work, consisting of the duties and responsibilities, assignable to an employee;
(4)
“class” or “class of positions” includes all positions which are sufficiently similar, as to—
to warrant similar treatment in personnel and pay administration; and
(b)
Except as provided by subsections (c) and (d) of this section, this chapter applies to all civilian positions and employees in or under an agency, including positions in local boards and appeal boards within the Selective Service System and employees occupying those positions.
(c)
This chapter does not apply to—
[ (1) Repealed. Pub. L. 91–375, § 6(c)(9), Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 776;]
(2)
members of the Foreign Service whose pay is fixed under the Foreign Service Act of 1980; and positions in or under the Department of State which are—
(3)
physicians, dentists, nurses, and other employees in the Veterans Health Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs whose pay is fixed under chapter
73 of title
38;
(4)
teachers, school officials, and employees of the Board of Education of the District of Columbia whose pay is fixed under chapter
15 of title
31, District of Columbia Code; the chief judges and the associate judges of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals; and nonjudicial employees of the District of Columbia court system whose pay is fixed under title 11 of the District of Columbia Code;
(5)
members of the Metropolitan Police, the Fire Department of the District of Columbia, the United States Park Police, and the United States Secret Service Uniformed Division; members of the police force of the National Zoological Park whose pay is fixed under section
5375 of this title; and members of the police forces of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and the United States Mint whose pay is fixed under section
5378 of this title;
(6)
lighthouse keepers and civilian employees on lightships and vessels of the Coast Guard whose pay is fixed under section
432
(f) and (g) of title
14;
(7)
employees in recognized trades or crafts, or other skilled mechanical crafts, or in unskilled, semiskilled, or skilled manual-labor occupations, and other employees including foremen and supervisors in positions having trade, craft, or laboring experience and knowledge as the paramount requirement, and employees in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing whose duties are to perform or to direct manual or machine operations requiring special skill or experience, or to perform or direct the counting, examining, sorting, or other verification of the product of manual or machine operations;
(10)
civilian professors, instructors, and lecturers at a professional military education school (and, in the case of the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, the Director and the Deputy Director) whose pay is fixed under section
1595,
4021,
7478, or
9021 of title
10; civilian professors, lecturers, and instructors at the Military Academy, the Naval Academy, and the Air Force Academy whose pay is fixed under sections
4338,
6952, and
9338, respectively, of title
10; senior professors, professors, associate and assistant professors, and instructors at the Naval Postgraduate School whose pay is fixed under section
7044 of title
10; the Provost and Academic Dean of the Naval Postgraduate School whose pay is fixed under section
7043 of title
10; civilian professors, instructors, and lecturers in the defense acquisition university structure (including the Defense Systems Management College) whose pay is fixed under section
1746
(b) of title
10;
[(12)
Repealed. Pub. L. 104–201, div. C, title XXXV, § 3548(a)(2)(B), Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 3868;]
(14)
employees whose pay is not wholly from appropriated funds of the United States (other than employees of the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Management System appointed under section
8474
(c)(2) of this title), except that with respect to the Veterans’ Canteen Service, Department of Veterans Affairs this paragraph applies only to employees necessary for the transaction of the business of the Service at canteens, warehouses, and storage depots whose employment is authorized by section
7802 of title
38;
(16)
student nurses, medical or dental interns, residents-in-training, student dietitians, student physical therapists, student occupational therapists, and other student employees, assigned or attached to a hospital, clinic, or laboratory primarily for training purposes, whose pay is fixed under subchapter
V of chapter
53 of this title or sections
7405 and
7406 of title
38;
(17)
inmates, patients, or beneficiaries receiving care or treatment or living in Government agencies or institutions;
(18)
experts or consultants, when employed temporarily or intermittently in accordance with section
3109 of this title;
(19)
emergency or seasonal employees whose employment is of uncertain or purely temporary duration, or who are employed for brief periods at intervals;
(21)
employees who may lawfully perform their duties concurrently with their private profession, business, or other employment, and whose duties require only a portion of their time, when it is impracticable to ascertain or anticipate the proportion of time devoted to the service of the Government of the United States;
(23)
administrative patent judges and designated administrative patent judges in the United States Patent and Trademark Office;
(24)
temporary positions in the Bureau of the Census established under section
23 of title
13, and enumerator positions in the Bureau of the Census;
(25)
positions for which rates of basic pay are individually fixed, or expressly authorized to be fixed, by other statute, at or in excess of the rate for level V of the Executive Schedule;
(26)
civilian members of the faculty of the Coast Guard Academy whose pay is fixed under section
186 of title
14;
(27)
members of the police of the Library of Congress whose pay is fixed under section
167 of title
2;
(28)
civilian members of the faculty of the Air Force Institute of Technology whose pay is fixed under section
9314 of title
10;
(30)
members of agency boards of contract appeals appointed under section
7105
(a)(2), (c)(2), or (d)(2) of title
41.
(d)
This chapter does not apply to an employee of the Office of the Architect of the Capitol whose pay is fixed by other statute. Subsection (c) of this section, except paragraph (7), does not apply to the Office of the Architect of the Capitol.
(e)
Except as may be specifically provided, this chapter does not apply for pay purposes to any employee of the government of the District of Columbia during fiscal year 2006 or any succeeding fiscal year.
[1] So in original. The word “or” probably should not appear.
[2] So in original. Subsec. (a)(1) does not contain a cl. (viii).
[3] So in original. The period probably should be a semicolon.