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PUBLIC LAW 86-9 1 - J U L Y 17, 1959

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Public Law 86-91 AN ACT To govern the salaries and personnel practices applicable to teachers, certain school oflBcers, and other employees of the dependents schools of the Department of Defense in overseas areas, and for other purposes.

July V.r, 1959 [S.96]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SHORT TITLE

1. This Act may be cited as the "Defense Department ^^^f"o'^ve^reTs Overseas Teachers Pay and Personnel Practices Act". Teachers ^ay^and SECTION

Personnel DEFINITIONS

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SEC. 2. For the purposes of this Act, the term— (1) "teaching position" means those duties and responsibilities which— (A) are performed on a school-year basis principally in a school operated by the Department of Defense in an overseas area for dependents of members of the Armed Forces and dependents of civilian employees of the Department of Defense, and (B) involve— (i) classroom or other instruction or the supervision or direction of classroom or other instruction; or (ii) any activity (other than teaching) which requires academic credits in educational theory and practice equal to the academic credits in educational theory and practice required for a bachelor's degree in education from an accredited institution of higher education; or (iii) any activity in or related to the field of education notwithstanding that academic credits in educational theory and practice are not a formal requirement for the conduct of such activity. (2) "teacher" means an individual— ^A) who is a citizen of the United States, B) who is a civilian, and (C) whose services are required on a school-year basis in a teaching position. (3) "overseas area" means any area situated outside the United States. (4) "United States", when used in a geographical sense, means the several States of the United States of America, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone, and the possessions of the United States (excluding the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands and Midway Islands). EXEMPTION OF TEACHERS A N D TEACHING POSITIONS FROM CLASSIFICATION ACT OF 1949

SEC. 3. Section 202 of the Classification Act of 1949, as amended (5 U.S.C. 1082), is amended by adding at the end thereof the following paragraph; "(32) 'teachers' and 'teaching positions' as defined in the Defense Department Overseas Teachers Pay and Personnel Practices Act."

63 Stat. 954.

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