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PUBLIC LAW 86-56-JUNE 17, 1967

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DEXTAL SERVICE

Chief grade, $11,610 minimum to $12,685 maximum. Senior grade, $10,320 minimum to $11,395 maximum. Intermediate grade, $8,990 minimum to $10,065 maximum. Full grade, $7,570 minimum to $8,645 maximum. Associate grade, $6,390 minimum to $7,465 maximum. Junior grade, $5,915 minimum to $6,720 maximum. NURSING

SERVICE

Assistant Director, $7,570 minimum to $8,645 maximum. Senior grade, $6,390 minimum to $7,465 maximum. Full grade, $5,440 minimum to $6,250 maximum. Associate grade, $4,730 minimum to $5,590 maximum. Junior grade, $4,025 minimum to $4,885 maximum. ADMINISTRATION

(b) Notwithstanding any law. Executive order, or regulation, the Administrator shall prescribe by regulation the hours and conditions of employment and leaves of absence of physicians, dentists, and nurses. SPECIALIST RATINGS

SEC. 1408. (a) Within the restrictions herein imposed, the Chief Medical Director may rate any physician appointed under paragraph (1) of section 1404 as a medical or surgical specialist, and, upon the recommendation of the Assistant Chief Medical Director for Dentistry, may rate any doctor of dental surgery or dental medicine, appointed under paragraph (1) of section 1404 as a dental specialist; however, no person shall at any one time hold more than one such rating. (b) No person may be rated as a medical, surgical, or dental specialist unless he is certified as a specialist by an American specialty board, recognized by the Administrator where such boards exist; or if no such boards exist, he has been examined and found qualified by a board appointed by the Chief Medical Director from specialists of the Department of Medicine and Surgery holding ratings in the specialty to which the candidate aspires. Whenever there are insufficient specialists, rated in the proper specialty, who are readily available to constitute such a board, the Chief Medical Director may substitute consultants with comparable qualifications employed under section 1414. (c) Any person, rated as a medical, surgical, or dental specialist under the provisions of this section shall retain such rating until it shall be withdrawn by the Chief Medical Director. The Chief Medical Director shall not withdraw any such rating until it shall have been determined by a board of specialists that the person holding such rating is no longer qualified in his specialty. (d) Any person, rated as a medical, surgical, or dental specialist under the provisions of this section or prior corresponding provisions of law, shall receive, in addition to his basic pay, an allowance equal to 25 percent of such pay, but in no event shall the pay plus the allowance authorized by this subsection exceed $13,760 per annum. RETIREMENT

RIGHTS

SEC. 1409, Persons appointed to the Department of Medicine and Surgery shall be subject to the provisions of and entitled to benefits under the Civil Service Retirement Act,

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