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 94 STAT. 2084 Career and noncareer appointments.

22 USC 3942.

Ambassadors or ministers, conferral of personal rank.

Report to Senate Committee.

Senate approval of appointments, u s e prec. title 1.

Foreign Service status, retention.

Post, p. 2092.

Post, p. 2087. 5 USC 6301.

PUBLIC LAW 96-465—OCT. 17, 1980

(d)(1) Members of the Service serving under career appointments are career members of the Service. Members of the Service serving under Hmited appointments are either career candidates or noncareer members of the Service. (2) Chiefs of mission, ambassadors at large, and ministers serve at the pleasure of the President. (3) An appointment as a Foreign Service officer is a career appointment. SEC. 302. APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT.—(a)(1) The President

may, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint an individual as a chief of mission, as an ambassador at large, as a minister, as a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, or as a Foreign Service officer. (2)(A) The President may, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, confer the personal rank of career ambassador upon a career member of the Senior Foreign Service in recognition of especially distinguished service over a sustained period. (B)(i) Subject to the requirement of clause (ii), the President may confer the personal rank of ambassador or minister on an individual in connection with a special mission for the President of a temporary nature not exceeding six months in duration. (ii) The President may confer such personal rank only if, prior to such conferral, he transmits to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate a written report setting forth— (I) the necessity for conferring such rank, (II) the dates during which such rank will be held, (III) the justification for not submitting the proposed conferral of personal rank to the Senate as a nomination for advice and consent to appointment, and (IV) all relevant information concerning any potential conflict of interest which the proposed recipient of such personal rank may have with regard to the special mission. Such report shall be transmitted not less than 30 days prior to conferral of the personal rank of ambassador or minister except in cases where the President certifies in his report that urgent circumstances require the immediate conferral of such rank. (C) An individual upon whom a personal rank is conferred under subparagraph (A) or (B) shall not receive any additional compensation solely by virtue of such personal rank. (3) Except as provided in paragraph (2)(B) of this subsection or in clause 3, section 2, article II of the Constitution (relating to recess appointments), an individual may not be designated as ambassador or minister, or be designated to serve in any position with the title of ambassador or minister, without the advice and consent of the Senate. (b) If a member of the Service is appointed to any position in the executive branch by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, or by the President alone, the period of service in that position by the member shall be regarded as an assignment under chapter 5 and the member shall not, by virtue of the acceptance of such assignment, lose his or her status as a member of the Service. A member of the Senior Foreign Service who accepts such an assignment may elect to continue to receive the salary of his or her salary class, to remain eligible for performance pay under chapter 4, and to receive the leave to which such member is entitled under subchapter I of chapter 63 of title 5, United States Code, as a member of the Senior Foreign Service, in lieu of receiving the salary and leave

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