[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 39, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 39CFR222.5]

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                        TITLE 39--POSTAL SERVICE
 
                 CHAPTER I--UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE
 
PART 222--DELEGATIONS OF AUTHORITY--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 222.5  Authority to approve personnel actions and administer oaths 
of office for employment.

    (a) Delegation. The following are authorized to effect appointments, 
administer oaths of office for employment, and take other personnel 
actions:
    (1) Senior Assistant Postmaster General, Human Resources, Assistant 
Postmasters General, Employee Relations Department and Labor Relations 
Department;
    (2) Chief Postal Inspector;
    (3) Regional Chief Postal Inspectors;
    (4) Postal Inspectors-in-Charge;
    (5) Regional Postmasters General;
    (6) Heads of postal field installations including those reporting 
directly to specified departments in Headquarters or to Regional 
Postmasters General;
    (7) Officials occupying personnel services positions EAS-15 and 
above, when their positions include responsibility for functions such as 
recruitment, appointments, replacements, position changes and 
separations, and related personnel processing.

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    (b) Personnel actions for employees of ``other installations.'' As 
specifically authorized by either the Senior Assistant Postmaster 
General, Human Resources or a Regional Postmaster General, officers and 
employees listed in paragraph (a) of this section may approve personnel 
actions for employees in offices or installations other than their own 
as a cross-service, as a central personnel office, or on a special need 
basis.
    (c) Transfers of accountability. In addition to other personnel 
authorized under this section, associate office coordinators at field 
divisions and management sectional centers may administer oaths of 
office for employment at any post office in conjunction with transfers 
of accountability of postmasters.

[38 FR 20404, July 31, 1973, as amended at 40 FR 13498, Mar. 27, 1975; 
43 FR 29117, July 6, 1978; 51 FR 40798, Nov. 10, 1986; 54 FR 29707, July 
14, 1989; 63 FR 9943, Feb. 27, 1998]