[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR842.102]

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                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
          CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT (Continued)
 
PART 842--FEDERAL EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM--BASIC ANNUITY--Table of Contents
 
                           Subpart A--Coverage
 
Sec. 842.102  Definitions.

    In this subpart--
    CSRS means the Civil Service Retirement System as described in 
subchapter III of chapter 83 of title 5, United States Code;
    Employee means the following individuals listed in 5 U.S.C. 8401(11) 
whose service is employment for the purposes of title II of the Social 
Security Act and chapter 21 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954:
    (a) An employee as defined by 5 U.S.C. 2105;
    (b) A U.S. Commissioner whose total pay for services performed as 
Commissioner is not less than $3,000 in each of the last three 
consecutive calendar years ending after December 31, 1954;
    (c) An individual employed by a county committee established under 
16 U.S.C. 590h(b);
    (d) An individual employed by Gallaudet College;
    (e) An individual appointed to a position on the office staff of a 
former President under section 1(b) of the ``Act of August 25, 1958'' 
(72 Stat 838);
    (f) An alien (1) who was previously employed by the Government; (2) 
who is employed full time by a foreign government to protect or further 
the interests of the United States during an interruption of diplomatic 
or consular relations; and (3) for whose services reimbursement is made 
to the foreign government by the United States;
    (g) A Congressional employee as defined in 5 U.S.C. 2107, including 
a temporary Congressional employee and an employee of the Congressional 
Budget Office; and
    (h) The following individuals are excluded from the definition of 
``employee'' in 5 U.S.C. 8401 (11):
    (1) A justice or judge of the United States as defined by 28 U.S.C. 
451;
    (2) A temporary employee of the Administrative Office of the United 
States Courts or of a court named by 28 U.S.C. 610;
    (3) A construction employee or other temporary, part-time, or 
intermittent employee of the Tennessee Valley Authority;
    (4) A student employee as defined by 5 U.S.C. 5351;
    (5) Teachers in dependents' schools of the Department of Defense in 
overseas areas with respect to Federal employment, other than teaching, 
performed during a recess period between two school years;
    (6) An individual subject to another retirement system for 
Government employees (other than an employee of the United States Park 
Police, or the United States Secret Service) any of whose civilian 
employment after December 31, 1983, is employment subject to social 
security; and
    (7) An individual excluded by OPM regulation in Sec. 842.105.
    FERS means the Federal Employees Retirement System as described in 
chapter 84 of title 5, United States Code.
    Member has the same meaning provided in 5 U.S.C. 2106, except that 
the term does not include an individual who irrevocably elects, by 
written notice to the official by whom such individual is paid, not to 
participate in FERS.
    NAF employee means an employee of an instrumentality described in 
section 2105(c) of title 5, United States Code.
    OPM means the Office of Personnel Management.
    Social security means coverage under the Old Age, Survivors, and 
Disability Insurance (OASDI) programs of the Social Security Act.

[51 FR 47197, Dec. 31, 1986, as amended at 52 FR 25197, July 6, 1987; 56 
FR 4931, Feb. 7, 1991]