5 CFR § 752.601 - Coverage.
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t5/s752.601"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "5 CFR § 752.601 - Coverage."
title_number: 5
title_name: "Administrative Personnel"
section_number: "752.601"
section_name: "Coverage."
chapter_name: "OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT"
subchapter_number: "B"
subchapter_name: "CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS"
part_number: "752"
part_name: "ADVERSE ACTIONS"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "5 U.S.C. 6329b, 7504, 7514, 7515, and 7543; 38 U.S.C. 7403. E.O. 10577, 19 FR 7521, 3 CFR, 1954-1958 Comp., p. 218."
regulatory_source: "74 FR 63532, Dec. 4, 2009, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "752"
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# 752.601 Coverage.
(a) *Adverse actions covered.* This subpart applies to suspensions for more than 14 days and removals from the civil service as set forth in 5 U.S.C. 7542.
(b) *Actions excluded.* (1) An agency may not take a suspension action of 14 days or less.
(2) This subpart does not apply to actions taken under 5 U.S.C. 1215, 3592, 3595, 7532, or 7515.
(c) *Employees covered.* This subpart covers the following appointees:
(1) A career appointee—
(i) Who has completed the probationary period in the Senior Executive Service;
(ii) Who is not required to serve a probationary period in the Senior Executive Service; or
(iii) Who was covered under 5 U.S.C. 7511 immediately before appointment to the Senior Executive Service.
(2) A limited term or limited emergency appointee—
(i) Who received the limited appointment without a break in service in the same agency as the one in which the employee held a career or career-conditional appointment (or an appointment of equivalent tenure as determined by the Office of Personnel Management) in a permanent civil service position outside the Senior Executive Service; and
(ii) Who was covered under 5 U.S.C. 7511 immediately before appointment to the Senior Executive Service.
(d) *Employees excluded.* This subpart does not cover an appointee who is serving as a reemployed annuitant.
[74 FR 63532, Dec. 4, 2009, as amended at 85 FR 65987, Oct. 16, 2020]