36 U.S.C. § 1405
Section 1405 · Staff
Amended 4 times on record
There shall be an Executive Director of the Holocaust Memorial Museum who shall be appointed by the Chairperson of the Council, subject to confirmation of the Council, who may be paid with nonappropriated funds, and who, if paid with appropriated funds, shall be paid at a rate not to exceed the maximum rate of basic pay payable for GS–18 of the General Schedule. The Executive Director shall serve at the pleasure of the Council.
The Executive Director shall have authority to—
(1) appoint employees in the competitive service subject to the provisions of chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5 relating to classification and general schedule pay rates; and
(2) appoint and fix the compensation (at a rate not to exceed the maximum rate of basic pay payable for GS–18 of the General Schedule) of up to three employees notwithstanding any other provision of law; and
(3) implement decisions of the Council, in the manner directed by the Council, and perform such other functions as may be assigned from time to time by the Council, the Executive Committee of the Council, or the Chairperson of the Council.
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Amendments
1993—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103–138 substituted “There shall be an Executive Director of the Holocaust Memorial Museum who shall be appointed by the Chairperson of the Council, subject to confirmation of the Council, who may be paid with nonappropriated funds, and who, if paid with appropriated funds,” for “The Council shall, without regard to section 5311(b) of title 5, have an Executive Director who shall be appointed by the Chairperson of the Council, subject to confirmation of the Council and who”.
1987—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 100–71 substituted “the Chairperson of the Council, subject to confirmation of the Council” for “the President upon the recommendation of the Chairperson of the Council” and inserted provision at end that the Executive Director serve at pleasure of Council.
Subsec. (b)(3). Pub. L. 100–71 added par. (3).
1981—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 97–84 substituted provisions granting the Executive Director authority to (1) appoint employees in the competitive service subject to the provisions of chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5 relating to classification and general schedule pay rates, and (2) appoint and fix the compensation (at a rate not to exceed the maximum rate of basic pay payable for GS–18 of the General Schedule) of up to three employees notwithstanding any other provision of law for provisions which authorized the Executive Director, without regard to section 5311(b) of title 5, to appoint and fix the pay of such additional personnel as the Director considered appropriate and which also provided that the Executive Director and staff of the Council be appointed subject to the provisions of title 5 governing appointments in the competitive service, and be paid in accordance with the provisions of chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5 relating to classifications and General Schedule pay rates.
References in Other Laws to GS–16, 17, or 18 Pay Rates
References in laws to the rates of pay for GS–16, 17, or 18, or to maximum rates of pay under the General Schedule, to be considered references to rates payable under specified sections of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, see section 529 [title I, §101(c)(1)] of Pub. L. 101–509, set out in a note under section 5376 of Title 5.
Memorial Employees Brought Into Competitive Service
Pub. L. 102–381, title II, Oct. 5, 1992, 106 Stat. 1415, provided in part: “That all employees of the memorial on April 1, 1993, including employees currently on excepted appointments covered under schedules A, B, and C, who are performing inherently governmental functions which will continue after the opening of the museum shall be brought into the competitive service in accordance with the classification and pay policy guidelines contained in title V [5] of the United States Code.”