2 USC § 162a - Gross salary of Library of Congress employees

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title: "2 USC § 162a - Gross salary of Library of Congress employees"
title_number: 2
title_name: "THE CONGRESS"
section_number: "162a"
section_name: "Gross salary of Library of Congress employees"
chapter_number: 5
chapter_name: "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(June 22, 1949, ch. 235, § 101, 63 Stat. 226; Oct. 28, 1949, ch. 782, title XI, § 1106(a), 63 Stat. 972.)"
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# § 162a. Gross salary of Library of Congress employees

section 162 of this title

Hereafter the gross salary of any position in the Library which is augmented by payment of an honorarium from other than appropriated funds under terms of  shall not exceed an amount, which when combined with such honorarium, will exceed the maximum salary provided in chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5.

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**Source Credit**: (June 22, 1949, ch. 235, § 101, 63 Stat. 226; Oct. 28, 1949, ch. 782, title XI, § 1106(a), 63 Stat. 972.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

“Chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5” substituted in text for “the Classification Act of 1949” on authority of , , , section 1 of which enacted Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

### Amendments

1949—Act , substituted “Classification Act of 1949” for “Classification Act of 1923”.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Repeals

, cited as a credit to this section, was repealed (subject to a savings clause) by , , § 8, , 655.