[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR315.609]

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                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
                CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
 
PART 315--CAREER AND CAREER-CONDITIONAL EMPLOYMENT--Table of Contents
 
   Subpart F--Career or Career-Conditional Appointment Under Special 
                               Authorities
 
Sec. 315.609  Appointment based on service in United States positions of the Panama Canal Commission.

    (a) Agency authority. An agency may appoint noncompetitively, for 
other than temporary or term employment, a United States citizen who has 
served under nontemporary appointment in a continuing career position of 
the Panama Canal Commission located in the United States.
    (b) Service requirement. An agency may appoint such an individual 
under this section only when, immediately prior to separation from a 
qualifying appointment with the Panama Canal Commission in the United 
States, the individual served continuously for at least 1 year under 
such qualifying appointment or under a combination of such appointment 
and nontemporary appointment in the Canal Zone Merit System or the 
Panama Canal Employment System.
    (c) Time limits. (1) There is no time limit on the appointment under 
this section of an employee who:
    (i) Is a preference eligible; or

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    (ii) Has completed at least 3 years of service, which did not 
include any break in service longer than 30 days, under one or more 
nontemporary appointments in Panama Canal Commission positions located 
in the United States or in positions under the Canal Zone Merit System 
and/or the Panama Canal Employment System.
    (2) An agency may appoint under this section an employee who does 
not meet the conditions in (c)(1) of this section only if no more than 3 
years have elapsed since the individual's separation from a qualifying 
appointment.
    (d) Tenure on appointment. (1) On appointment under paragraph (a) of 
this section, an individual whose qualifying service does not include 
any break in service of more than 30 days and totals at least 3 years 
becomes a career employee.
    (2) All other individuals appointed under this section become 
career-conditional employees.
    (e) Acquisition of competitive status. A person appointed under 
paragraph (a) of this section automatically acquires a competitive 
status:
    (1) On appointment, if he or she has satisfactorily completed a 1-
year trial period, which did not include more than 22 workdays in nonpay 
status, during qualifying employment with the Panama Canal Commission.
    (2) On satisfactory completion of probation in accordance with 
Sec. 315.801(a)(3) if he or she had not completed such a 1-year trial 
period.

[48 FR 29667, June 28, 1983]