{"identifier":"/us/usc/t5/s5371","title":5,"num":"\u00a7\u202f5371.","heading":"Health care positions","text":"\u00a7\u202f5371.\nHealth care positions\n(a) For the purposes of this section, \u201chealth care\u201d means direct patient-care services or services incident to direct patient-care services.\n(b) The Office of Personnel Management may, with respect to any employee described in subsection (c), provide that 1 or more provisions of chapter 74 of title 38 shall apply\u2014\n(1) in lieu of any provision of chapter 51 or 61, subchapter V of chapter 55, or any other provision of this chapter; or\n(2) notwithstanding any lack of specific authority for a matter with respect to which chapter 51 or 61, subchapter V of chapter 55, or this chapter, relates.\n(c) Authority under subsection (b) may be exercised with respect to any employee holding a position\u2014\n(1) to which chapter 51 applies, excluding any Senior Executive Service position and any position in the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Drug Enforcement Administration Senior Executive Service; and\n(2) which involves health care responsibilities.","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t5/s5371.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t5/s5371","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f5371."},{"t":"heading","text":"Health care positions"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t5/s5371/a","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(a)"},{"t":"content","text":" For the purposes of this section, \u201chealth care\u201d means direct patient-care services or services incident to direct patient-care services.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t5/s5371/b","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(b)"},{"t":"chapeau","text":" The Office of Personnel Management may, with respect to any employee described in subsection (c), provide that 1 or more provisions of chapter 74 of title 38 shall apply\u2014"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t5/s5371/b/1","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(1)"},{"t":"content","text":" in lieu of any provision of chapter 51 or 61, subchapter V of chapter 55, or any other provision of this chapter; or","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t5/s5371/b/2","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(2)"},{"t":"content","text":" notwithstanding any lack of specific authority for a matter with respect to which chapter 51 or 61, subchapter V of chapter 55, or this chapter, relates.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t5/s5371/c","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(c)"},{"t":"chapeau","text":" Authority under subsection (b) may be exercised with respect to any employee holding a position\u2014"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t5/s5371/c/1","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(1)"},{"t":"content","text":" to which chapter 51 applies, excluding any Senior Executive Service position and any position in the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Drug Enforcement Administration Senior Executive Service; and","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t5/s5371/c/2","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(2)"},{"t":"content","text":" which involves health care responsibilities.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}