<section xmlns="http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" style="-uslm-lc:I80" id="id80d97e94-3b28-11eb-8459-b1d1037aec5b" identifier="/us/usc/t20/s903"><num value="903">§ 903.</num><heading> Administration</heading><subsection style="-uslm-lc:I19" class="indent2 firstIndent-2" id="id80d97e95-3b28-11eb-8459-b1d1037aec5b" identifier="/us/usc/t20/s903/a"><num value="a" class="bold">(a)</num><heading class="bold"> Employment and salary practices</heading><content><p style="-uslm-lc:I11" class="indent0">The Secretary of Defense shall conduct the employment and salary practices applicable to teachers and teaching positions in the Department of Defense in accordance with this chapter, other applicable law, and the regulations prescribed and issued by the Secretary of Defense under <ref href="/us/usc/t20/s902">section 902 of this title</ref>.</p>
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I19" class="indent2 firstIndent-2" id="id80d97e96-3b28-11eb-8459-b1d1037aec5b" identifier="/us/usc/t20/s903/b"><num value="b" class="bold">(b)</num><heading class="bold"> Determination of exempt positions and individuals; establishment of annual salary rate</heading><chapeau style="-uslm-lc:I11" class="indent0">Subject to <ref href="/us/usc/t5/s5103">section 5103 of title 5</ref>, the Secretary of Defense—</chapeau><paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I12" class="indent1" id="id80d97e97-3b28-11eb-8459-b1d1037aec5b" identifier="/us/usc/t20/s903/b/1"><num value="1">(1)</num><content> shall determine the applicability of paragraph (22) of <ref href="/us/usc/t5/s5102/c">section 5102(c) of title 5</ref> to positions and individuals in the Department of Defense; and</content>
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<paragraph style="-uslm-lc:I12" class="indent1" id="id80d97e98-3b28-11eb-8459-b1d1037aec5b" identifier="/us/usc/t20/s903/b/2"><num value="2">(2)</num><content> shall establish the appropriate annual salary rate in accordance with this chapter for each such position and individual to which such paragraph (22) is determined to be applicable.</content>
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I19" class="indent2 firstIndent-2" id="id80d97e99-3b28-11eb-8459-b1d1037aec5b" identifier="/us/usc/t20/s903/c"><num value="c" class="bold">(c)</num><heading class="bold"> Rates of basic compensation</heading><content><p style="-uslm-lc:I11" class="indent0">The Secretary of Defense shall fix the basic compensation for teachers and teaching positions in the Department of Defense at rates equal to the average of the range of rates of basic compensation for similar positions of a comparable level of duties and responsibilities in urban school jurisdictions in the United States of 100,000 or more population.</p>
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<subsection style="-uslm-lc:I19" class="indent2 firstIndent-2" id="id80d97e9a-3b28-11eb-8459-b1d1037aec5b" identifier="/us/usc/t20/s903/d"><num value="d" class="bold">(d)</num><heading class="bold"> Issuance of regulations by Secretary of Defense</heading><content><p style="-uslm-lc:I11" class="indent0">The Secretary of Defense may prescribe and issue such regulations as he deems appropriate to carry out his functions under this chapter.</p>
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<sourceCredit id="id80d97e9b-3b28-11eb-8459-b1d1037aec5b">(<ref href="/us/pl/86/91/s5">Pub. L. 86–91, § 5</ref>, <date date="1959-07-17">July 17, 1959</date>, <ref href="/us/stat/73/214">73 Stat. 214</ref>; <ref href="/us/pl/86/370/s6/b">Pub. L. 86–370, § 6(b)</ref>, <date date="1959-09-23">Sept. 23, 1959</date>, <ref href="/us/stat/73/652">73 Stat. 652</ref>; <ref href="/us/pl/89/391/s1/b">Pub. L. 89–391, § 1(b)</ref>, (c), <date date="1966-04-14">Apr. 14, 1966</date>, <ref href="/us/stat/80/117">80 Stat. 117</ref>; <ref href="/us/pl/96/470/tI/s104/b">Pub. L. 96–470, title I, § 104(b)</ref>, <date date="1980-10-19">Oct. 19, 1980</date>, <ref href="/us/stat/94/2238">94 Stat. 2238</ref>; <ref href="/us/pl/104/201/dA/tXVI/s1606/b">Pub. L. 104–201, div. A, title XVI, § 1606(b)</ref>, <date date="1996-09-23">Sept. 23, 1996</date>, <ref href="/us/stat/110/2737">110 Stat. 2737</ref>; <ref href="/us/pl/105/85/dA/tX/s1073/c/9/B">Pub. L. 105–85, div. A, title X, § 1073(c)(9)(B)</ref>, (C), <date date="1997-11-18">Nov. 18, 1997</date>, <ref href="/us/stat/111/1904">111 Stat. 1904</ref>.)</sourceCredit>
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<note style="-uslm-lc:I76" topic="codification" id="id80d97e9d-3b28-11eb-8459-b1d1037aec5b"><heading class="centered smallCaps">Codification</heading>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">In subsec. (b), “<ref href="/us/usc/t5/s5103">section 5103 of title 5</ref>” and “paragraph (22) of <ref href="/us/usc/t5/s5102/c">section 5102(c) of title 5</ref>” substituted for “section 202 of the Classification Act of 1949” and “paragraph (33) of section 202 of such Act, added by section 3 of this Act” respectively, on authority of <ref href="/us/pl/89/554/s7/b">Pub. L. 89–554, § 7(b)</ref>, <date date="1966-09-06">Sept. 6, 1966</date>, <ref href="/us/stat/80/631">80 Stat. 631</ref>, the first section of which enacted Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.</p>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">Provisions of section 1(b) and (c) of <ref href="/us/pl/89/391">Pub. L. 89–391</ref> for amendment of subsec. (c) of this section and addition of other provisions as another subsec. (c), have been executed in the Code as an amendment of subsec. (c) of this section and addition of subsec. (e) of this section, respectively.</p>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">Section was formerly classified to <ref href="/us/usc/t5/s2353">section 2353 of Title 5</ref> prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, by <ref href="/us/pl/89/554/s1">Pub. L. 89–554, § 1</ref>, <date date="1966-09-06">Sept. 6, 1966</date>, <ref href="/us/stat/80/378">80 Stat. 378</ref>.</p>
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<note style="-uslm-lc:I74" topic="amendments" id="id80d97e9e-3b28-11eb-8459-b1d1037aec5b"><heading class="centered smallCaps">Amendments</heading><p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">1997—Subsec. (a). <ref href="/us/pl/105/85/s1073/c/9/B">Pub. L. 105–85, § 1073(c)(9)(B)</ref>, made technical correction to <ref href="/us/pl/104/201/s1606/b/1/A">Pub. L. 104–201, § 1606(b)(1)(A)</ref>. See 1996 Amendment note below.</p>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">Subsec. (b)(1). <ref href="/us/pl/105/85/s1073/c/9/C">Pub. L. 105–85, § 1073(c)(9)(C)</ref>, made technical correction to <ref href="/us/pl/104/201/s1606/b/2/B">Pub. L. 104–201, § 1606(b)(2)(B)</ref>. See 1996 Amendment note below.</p>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">1996—Subsec. (a). <ref href="/us/pl/104/201/s1606/b/1/B">Pub. L. 104–201, § 1606(b)(1)(B)</ref>, substituted “the Department of Defense” for “his military department”.</p>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0"><ref href="/us/pl/104/201/s1606/b/1/A">Pub. L. 104–201, § 1606(b)(1)(A)</ref>, as amended by <ref href="/us/pl/105/85/s1073/c/9/B">Pub. L. 105–85, § 1073(c)(9)(B)</ref>, substituted “Secretary of Defense shall” for “secretary of each military department in the Department of Defense shall”.</p>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">Subsec. (b). <ref href="/us/pl/104/201/s1606/b/2/A">Pub. L. 104–201, § 1606(b)(2)(A)</ref>, substituted “Secretary of Defense—” for “secretary of each military department—” in introductory provisions.</p>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">Subsec. (b)(1). <ref href="/us/pl/104/201/s1606/b/2/B">Pub. L. 104–201, § 1606(b)(2)(B)</ref>, as amended by <ref href="/us/pl/105/85/s1073/c/9/C">Pub. L. 105–85, § 1073(c)(9)(C)</ref>, substituted “the Department of Defense;” for “his military department,”.</p>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">Subsec. (c). <ref href="/us/pl/104/201/s1606/b/3">Pub. L. 104–201, § 1606(b)(3)</ref>, substituted “Secretary of Defense” for “Secretary of each military department” and “the Department of Defense” for “his military department”.</p>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">Subsec. (d). <ref href="/us/pl/104/201/s1606/b/4">Pub. L. 104–201, § 1606(b)(4)</ref>, substituted “Secretary of Defense” for “Secretary of each military department”.</p>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">1980—Subsec. (e). <ref href="/us/pl/96/470">Pub. L. 96–470</ref> struck out subsec. (e) which required the Secretary of Defense, on or before the 15th day of January in each calendar year beginning after <date date="1966-04-14">Apr. 14, 1966</date>, to report to the respective Committees on Post Office and Civil Service of the Senate and House of Representatives information on teachers separated from teaching positions subsequent to the close of the immediately preceding full school year and the number of new teachers appointed to teaching positions at the beginning of the school year current at time of the report, including the number of such new teachers obtained through voluntary reciprocal interchange agreements with school jurisdictions in the United States.</p>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">1966—Subsec. (c). <ref href="/us/pl/89/391/s1/b">Pub. L. 89–391, § 1(b)</ref>, substituted provisions for fixing the basic compensation for teachers and teaching positions at rates equal to the average of the range of rates of basic compensation for similar positions of a comparable level of duties and responsibilities in urban school jurisdictions in the United States of 100,000 or more population for former provisions fixing such rates in relation to the rates of basic compensation for similar positions in the United States but not exceeding the highest rate of basic compensation for similar positions of a comparable level of duties and responsibilities under the municipal government of the District of Columbia.</p>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">Subsec. (e). <ref href="/us/pl/89/391/s1/c">Pub. L. 89–391, § 1(c)</ref>, inserted provisions designated as subsec. (c) to <ref href="/us/pl/86/91/s5">section 5 of Pub. L. 86–91</ref>, but codified as subsec. (e) of this section.</p>
<p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">1959—Subsec. (b). <ref href="/us/pl/86/370">Pub. L. 86–370</ref> substituted “(33)” for “(32)” in two places.</p>
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<note style="-uslm-lc:I74" topic="effectiveDateOfAmendment" id="id80d97e9f-3b28-11eb-8459-b1d1037aec5b"><heading class="centered smallCaps">Effective Date of 1997 Amendment</heading><p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0"><ref href="/us/pl/105/85/dA/tX/s1073/c">Pub. L. 105–85, div. A, title X, § 1073(c)</ref>, <date date="1997-11-18">Nov. 18, 1997</date>, <ref href="/us/stat/111/1904">111 Stat. 1904</ref>, provided that the amendment made by that section is effective as of <date date="1996-09-23">Sept. 23, 1996</date>, and as if included in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997, <ref href="/us/pl/104/201">Pub. L. 104–201</ref>, as enacted.</p>
</note>
<note style="-uslm-lc:I74" topic="effectiveDateOfAmendment" id="id80d97ea0-3b28-11eb-8459-b1d1037aec5b"><heading class="centered smallCaps">Effective Date of 1966 Amendment</heading><p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">Amendments of this section by <ref href="/us/pl/89/391">Pub. L. 89–391</ref> effective on first day of first pay period beginning after <date date="1966-04-14">Apr. 14, 1966</date>, see <ref href="/us/pl/89/391/s2">section 2 of Pub. L. 89–391</ref>, set out as a note under <ref href="/us/usc/t20/s902">section 902 of this title</ref>.</p>
</note>
<note style="-uslm-lc:I74" topic="effectiveDateOfAmendment" id="id80d97ea1-3b28-11eb-8459-b1d1037aec5b"><heading class="centered smallCaps">Effective Date of 1959 Amendment</heading><p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">Amendment by <ref href="/us/pl/86/370">Pub. L. 86–370</ref> effective on first day of first pay period which begins after <date date="1959-09-23">Sept. 23, 1959</date>, see <ref href="/us/pl/86/370/s7/b">section 7(b) of Pub. L. 86–370</ref>, set out as a note under <ref href="/us/usc/t35/s3">section 3 of Title 35</ref>, Patents.</p>
</note>
<note style="-uslm-lc:I74" topic="miscellaneous" id="id80d97ea2-3b28-11eb-8459-b1d1037aec5b"><heading class="centered smallCaps">Teachers Employed by Canal Zone Government School System on <date date="1979-09-30">September 30, 1979</date></heading><p style="-uslm-lc:I21" class="indent0">Subsec. (c) of this section not to apply with respect to any teacher who was employed by the Canal Zone Government school system on <date date="1979-09-30">September 30, 1979</date>, and who was transferred from such position to a teaching position which is under the Department of Defense Overseas Dependent School System and the permanent duty station of which is in the Republic of Panama, until the rates of basic compensation established under subsec. (c) of this section equal or exceed the rates of basic compensation then in effect for teachers who were so transferred, see <ref href="/us/usc/t22/s3671/c/1">section 3671(c)(1) of Title 22</ref>, Foreign Relations and Intercourse.</p>
</note>
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