[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
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[CITE: 5CFR3.1]

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                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
                CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
 
PART 3--NONCOMPETITIVE ACQUISITION OF STATUS (RULE III)--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 3.1  Classes of persons who may noncompetitively acquire status.

    (a) Upon recommendation by the agency concerned, and subject to such 
noncompetitive examination, time limits, or other requirements as OPM 
may prescribe the following classes of persons may acquire a competitive 
status without competitive examination:
    (1) A person holding a permanent position when it is placed in the 
competitive service by statute or executive order or is otherwise made 
subject to competitive examination.
    (2) A disabled veteran who, in a manner satisfactory to OPM, has 
completed a course of training in the executive branch of the Government 
prescribed by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs in accordance with 
the act of March 24, 1943 (57 Stat. 43).
    (3) An employee who has served at least two years in the immediate 
office of the President or on the White House Staff and who is 
transferred to a competitive position at the request of an agency.
    (4) An employee who was serving when his name was reached for 
certification on a civil service register appropriate for the position 
in which he was serving: Provided, That the recommendation for 
competitive status is made prior to expiration of the register on which 
his name appears or is made during a period of continuous service since 
his name was reached: Provided further, That the register was being used 
for appointments conferring competitive status at the time his name was 
reached.
    (b) Upon recommendation by the employing agency, and subject to such 
requirements as the Office of Personnel Management may prescribe, the 
following classes of handicapped employees may acquire competitive 
status without competitive examination:
    (1) A severely physically handicapped employee who completes at 
least two years of satisfactory service in a position excepted from the 
competitive service.
    (2) A mentally retarded employee who completes at least two years of

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satisfactory service in a position excepted from the competitive 
service.
    (3) An employee with a psychiatric disability who completes at least 
2 years of satisfactory service in a position excepted from the 
competitive service.

[28 FR 10023, Sept. 14, 1963, as amended by E.O. 12125, 3 CFR, 1979 
Comp., p. 375; 65 FR 41868, July 7, 2000]