2020 US Code
Title 22 - Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 52 - Foreign Service
Subchapter VIII - Foreign Service Retirement and Disability
Part I - Foreign Service Retirement and Disability System
Sec. 4043 - Participants
| 22 U.S.C. § 4043 (2020) |
| §4043. Participants |
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(a) Career appointees or candidates; chiefs of mission
Except as provided in subsection (d), the following members of the Service (hereinafter in this part referred to as "participants") shall be entitled to the benefits of the System: (1) Every member who is serving under a career appointment or as a career candidate under section 3946 of this title— (A) in the Senior Foreign Service, or (B) assigned to a salary class in the Foreign Service Schedule. (2) Every chief of mission, who is not a participant under paragraph (1), who— (A) has served as chief of mission for an aggregate period of 20 years or more, and (B) has paid into the Fund a special contribution for each year of such service in accordance with section 4045 of this title. Any otherwise eligible member of the Service who is appointed to a position in the executive branch by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, or by the President alone, shall not by virtue of the acceptance of such appointment cease to be eligible to participate in the System. (c) Binational Center GranteesIn addition to the individuals who are participants in the System under subsection (a), any individual who was appointed as a Binational Center Grantee and who completed at least 5 years of satisfactory service as such a grantee or under any other appointment under the Foreign Service Act of 1946 may become a participant in the System, and shall receive credit for such service if an appropriate special contribution is made to the Fund in accordance with section 4045(d) or (f) of this title. (d) ExclusionAn individual subject to the Foreign Service Pension System (described in part II) is not a participant in this System. |
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(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, §803, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2102; Pub. L. 99–335, title IV, §§402(a)(2), 414, June 6, 1986, 100 Stat. 609, 614.) |
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REFERENCES IN TEXT
The Foreign Service Act of 1946, referred to in subsec. (c), is act Aug. 13, 1946, ch. 957, titles I to X, 60 Stat. 999, as amended, which was classified principally to chapter 14 (§801 et seq.) of this title, and was repealed by Pub. L. 96–465, title II, 2205(1), Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2159. AMENDMENTS1986—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 99–335, §§402(a)(2), 414(1), substituted "Except as provided in subsection (d), the" for "The" and "part" for "subchapter" in provisions preceding par. (1). Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 99–335, §414(2), added subsec. (d). STATUTORY NOTES AND RELATED SUBSIDIARIES EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1986 AMENDMENT Amendment by Pub. L. 99–335 effective Jan. 1, 1987, see section 702(a) of Pub. L. 99–335, set out as an Effective Date note under section 8401 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. |
| United States Code, 2018 Edition, Supplement 2, Title 22 - FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE |
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| Title 22 - FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE CHAPTER 52 - FOREIGN SERVICE SUBCHAPTER VIII - FOREIGN SERVICE RETIREMENT AND DISABILITY Part I - Foreign Service Retirement and Disability System Sec. 4043 - Participants |
| section 4043 |
| 2020 |
| January 13, 2021 |
| No |
| standard |
| 60 Stat. 999 94 Stat. 2102, 2159 100 Stat. 609 |
| Public Law 96-465, Public Law 99-335 |
