[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2006]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR210.102]

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                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
                CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
 
PART 210_BASIC CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONS (GENERAL)--Table of Contents
 
           Subpart A_Applicability of Regulations; Definitions
 
Sec. 210.102  Definitions.

    (a) The definitions in paragraph (b) of this section apply 
throughout this chapter, except when a defined term is specifically 
modified in or specifically defined for the purpose of a particular 
part.
    (b) In this chapter:
    (1) Appointing officer means a person having power by law, or by 
lawfully delegated authority, to make appointments to positions in the 
service of the Federal Government or the government of the District of 
Columbia.
    (2) OPM means the Office of Personnel Management.
    (3) Days, unless otherwise defined or limited, means calendar days 
and not workdays. In computing a period of time prescribed in this 
chapter, the day of the action or event after which the designated 
period of time begins to run is not to be included. The last day of the 
period so computed is to be included unless it is a Saturday, a Sunday, 
or a legal holiday in which event the period runs until the end of the 
next day which is neither a Saturday, a Sunday, nor a legal holiday.
    (4) Demotion means a change of an employee, while serving 
continuously within the same agency:
    (i) To a lower grade when both the old and the new positions are 
under the General Schedule or under the same type graded wage schedule; 
or
    (ii) To a position with a lower rate of pay when both the old and 
the new positions are under the same type ungraded wage schedule, or are 
in different pay method categories.
    (5) Eligible means an applicant who meets the minimum requirements 
for entrance to an examination and is rated 70 or more in the 
examination by OPM.
    (6) Employee means a civilian officer or employee.
    (7) Metropolitan area of Washington, DC., means the District of 
Columbia; Alexandria, Fairfax, and Falls Church Cities, Va.; Arlington, 
Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William Counties,

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Va.; and Charles, Montgomery, and Prince Georges Counties, Md.
    (8) Noncompetitive action means a promotion, demotion, reassignment, 
transfer, reinstatement, or an appointment based on prior service.
    (9) Overseas means outside the continental United States, but does 
not include Alaska, Guam, Hawaii, the Isthmus of Panama, Puerto Rico, or 
the Virgin Islands.
    (10) Position change means a promotion, demotion, or reassignment.
    (11) Promotion means a change of an employee, while serving 
continuously within the same agency:
    (i) To a higher grade when both the old and the new positions are 
under the General Schedule or under the same type graded wage schedule; 
or
    (ii) To a position with a higher rate of pay when both the old and 
the new positions are under the same type ungraded wage schedule, or are 
in different pay method categories.
    (12) Reassignment means a change of an employee, while serving 
continuously within the same agency, from one position to another 
without promotion or demotion.
    (13) Reemployed annuitant means an employee whose annuity under 
subchapter III of chapter 83 of title 5, United States Code, was 
continued on reemployment in an appointive position on or after October 
1, 1956.
    (14) Register means a list of qualified applicants compiled in order 
of relative standing for certification.
    (15) Reinstatement means the noncompetitive reemployment for service 
as a career or career-conditional employee of a person formerly employed 
in the competitive service who had a competitive status or was serving 
probation when he was separated from the service.
    (16) Status quo employee means an employee who failed to acquire a 
competitive status when the position in which he was serving was placed 
in the competitive service by a statute, Executive order, or Civil 
Service rule, which permitted his retention without the acquisition of 
status.
    (17) Tenure means the period of time an employee may reasonably 
expect to serve under his current appointment. It is granted and 
governed by the type of appointment under which an employee is currently 
serving without regard to whether he has a competitive status or whether 
his appointment is in a competitive position or in an excepted position.
    (18) Transfer means a change of an employee, without a break in 
service of 1 full workday, from a position in one agency to a position 
in another agency.

[33 FR 12407, Sept. 4, 1968, as amended at 34 FR 19495, Dec. 10, 1969; 
38 FR 22535, Aug. 22, 1973]