2 USC § 162 - Compensation of Library of Congress employees

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title: "2 USC § 162 - Compensation of Library of Congress employees"
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section_number: "162"
section_name: "Compensation of Library of Congress employees"
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source_credit: "(Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 423, § 6, 43 Stat. 1108; Jan. 27, 1926, ch. 6, § 2, 44 Stat. 2; Pub. L. 88–448, title IV, § 401(j), Aug. 19, 1964, 78 Stat. 491.)"
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# § 162. Compensation of Library of Congress employees

section 209 of title 18section 5533 of title 5

Employees of the Library of Congress who perform special functions for the performance of which funds have been entrusted to the board or the librarian, or in connection with cooperative undertakings in which the Library of Congress is engaged, shall not be subject to ; and  shall not apply to any additional compensation so paid to such employees.

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**Source Credit**: (Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 423, § 6, 43 Stat. 1108; Jan. 27, 1926, ch. 6, § 2, 44 Stat. 2; Pub. L. 88–448, title IV, § 401(j), Aug. 19, 1964, 78 Stat. 491.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

“” substituted in text for reference to the Act of ,  (), on authority of (1) , , section 1 of which enacted Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure, and which enacted in  the provisions formerly classified to ; and (2) , , , which repealed  and supplanted it with section 209, and which provided that exemptions from section 1914 shall be deemed exemptions from section 209. For further details, see Exemptions note set out under .

“” substituted in text for “section 301 of the Dual Compensation Act []” on authority of sec. 7(b) of , , , the first section of which enacted Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

Section was formerly classified to sections 60 and 65 of Title 5 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, by , , .

### Amendments

1964— substituted “and section 301 of the Dual Compensation Act [] shall not apply to any additional compensation so paid to such employees” for “nor shall any additional compensation so paid to such employees be construed as a double salary under the provisions of section 6 of the Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending , as amended (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page 582) []”.

1926—Act , struck out the comma after “undertakings”.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1964 Amendment

Amendment by  effective on first day of first month which begins later than the ninetieth day following , see , title IV, , .