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1934 < t/Nnto

NUMBER 227

Washington, Tuesday, November 23, 1954

TITLE 3 THE PRESIDENT
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10577
A mending the C ivil S ervice R ules and Authorizing a N ew Appointm ent S ystem for the C ompetitive S ervice
By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution, by section 1753
of the Revised Statutes 5 U. S. C. 631, by the Civil Service Act of January 16, 1883 22 Stat. 403, by section 301of title 3 of the United States Code, and as President of the United States, it is here by ordered as follows:
P art I C ivil S ervice R ules S ection 101. The Civil Service Rules
are hereby amended to read as follows:
RULE I COVERAGE AND DEFINITIONS

S ec. 1.1 Positions and employees af
fected by these Rules. These Rules shall apply to all positions in the competitive service and to all incumbents of such positions. Except as expressly provided in the Rule concerned, these Rules shall not apply to positions and employees in the excepted service.
Sec. 1.2 Extent of the competitive service. The competitive service shall include: a All civilian positions in the executive branch of the Government un less specifically excepted therefrom by or pursuant to statute or by the Civil Service Commission hereafter referred to in these Rules as the Commission under section 6.1 of Rule VI; and b all positions in the legislative and judi cial branches of the Federal Government and in the Government of the District of Columbia which are specifically made subject to the civil-service laws by stat ute. The Commission is authorized and directed to determine finally whether a position is in the competitive service.
S ec. 1.3 Definitions. As used in these Rules:
a Competitive service shall have the same meaning as the words clas sified service, or classified competi tive service, or classified civil service as defined in existing statutes and exec utive orders.
b Competitive position shall mean a position in the competitive service.
c Competitive status shall mean basic eligibility to be noncompetitively
selected to fill a vacancy in a competi tive position. A competitive status shall be acquired by career-conditional or career appointment through open com petitive examination upon satisfactory completion of a probationary period, or may be granted by statute, executive or der, or the Civil Service Rules without competitive examination. A person with competitive status may be promoted, transferred, reassigned, reinstated, or demoted without taking an open com petitive examination, subject to the con ditions prescribed by the Civil Service Rules and Regulations.
d An employee shall be considered as being in the competitive service when he has a competitive status and occupies a competitive position unless he is serv ing under a temporary appointment:
Provided, T hat an employee who is in the competitive service a t the time his position is first listed under Schedule A, B, or C shall be considered as continuing in the competitive service as long as he continues to occupy such position.
e Tenure shall mean the period of time an employee may reasonably ex pect to serve under his current appoint ment. Tenure shall be granted and gov erned by the type of appointment under which an employee is currently serving without regard to whether he has a com petitive status or whether his appoint ment is to a competitive position or an excepted position.
S ec. 1.4 Extent of the excepted serv ice. a The excepted service shall in clude all civilian positions in the execu tive branch of the Government which are specifically excepted from the re quirements of the Civil Service Act or from the competitive service by or pur suant to statute or by the Commission under section 6.1 of Rule VI.
b Excepted service shall have the same meaning as the words unclassified service, or unclassified civil service, or positions outside the competitive civil service as used in existing statutes and executive orders.
c Excepted position shall have the same meaning as unclassified position, or position excepted by law, or posi tion excepted by executive order, or position excepted by Civil Service Rule, or position outside the competitive servContinued on next page
CONTENTS
THE PRESIDENT
Executive Order
PaSe
Amending Civil Service Rules and authorizing new appointment system for competitive service.

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EXECUTIVE AGENCIES
Agriculture Department
See also Commodity Credit Cor poration.
Notices:
Disaster assistance; delineation and certification of counties contained in drought areas 7546
Rules and regulations:
Financing of commercial sales of surplus agricultural commodi ties for foreign currencies___ 7526
Alien Property Office
Notices:
Vested property, intention to return:
Kriegler, Abraham Moshe Maurice__________
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Marchand, Jean J o s e p h Martin Lambert_________ _ 7550
Civil Service Commission
Rules and regulations:
Civil Service Rules, revision of;
cross reference._____ 7526
Coast Guard
Rules and regulations:
Purchasing procedures, con tracts; miscellaneous amend ments______________ 7540
Commerce Department
See Federal Maritime Board.
Commodity Credit Corporation
Rules and regulations:
Loan and purchase agreement programs, 1954-crop; sup port rates:
Grain sorghums__________
Wheat___________________
Schedules of rates for cigar filler and binder tobacco_________

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Federal Communications Com mission
Notices:
Canadian broadcast stations ;
list of changes, proposed changes, and corrections in assignments_______________ 7547
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