15 U.S.C. § 42 — Employees; expenses

submitted 112 years ago by ch. 311 to r/title-15-COMMERCE-AND-TRADE · 247 words · no verdicts yet

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This law lets the Federal Trade Commission pay its staff. Commissioners get salaries like federal judges, and the Commission hires a secretary, lawyers, and other staff. Most employees join the regular classified civil service, and the GAO reviews all Commission spending.

Each Commissioner gets a salary, paid the same way salaries are paid to judges of U.S. courts. The Commission must appoint a secretary, who also gets a salary. The Commission can hire — and set the pay for — attorneys, special experts, examiners, clerks, and other employees it needs to do its job properly, as much as Congress funds from time to time. Except for the secretary, a clerk for each Commissioner, the attorneys, and any special experts or examiners the Commission decides it needs, every other Commission employee must be part of the classified civil service. They're hired under rules the Commission and the Director of the Office of Personnel Management set. All of the Commission's expenses — including necessary travel costs for Commissioners or staff acting under orders, whether investigating something or on official business outside Washington, D.C. — get paid once the Commission approves an itemized bill for them. Until a law says otherwise, the Commission can rent suitable office space. The Government Accountability Office receives and examines all of the Commission's spending records.

the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

Each commissioner shall receive a salary, payable in the same manner as the salaries of the judges of the courts of the United States. The commission shall appoint a secretary, who shall receive a salary, and it shall have authority to employ and fix the compensation of such attorneys, special experts, examiners, clerks, and other employees as it may from time to time find necessary for the proper performance of its duties and as may be from time to time appropriated for by Congress.

With the exception of the secretary, a clerk to each Commissioner, the attorneys, and such special experts and examiners as the Commission may from time to time find necessary for the conduct of its work, all employees of the Commission shall be a part of the classified civil service, and shall enter the service under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Commission and by the Director of the Office of Personnel Management.

All of the expenses of the Commission, including all necessary expenses for transportation incurred by the Commissioners or by their employees under their orders, in making any investigation, or upon official business in any other places than in the city of Washington, shall be allowed and paid on the presentation of itemized vouchers therefor approved by the Commission.

Until otherwise provided by law, the Commission may rent suitable offices for its use.

The Government Accountability Office shall receive and examine all accounts of expenditures of the Commission.

Source credit: (Sept. 26, 1914, ch. 311, § 2, 38 Stat. 718; June 10, 1921, ch. 18, title III, § 304, 42 Stat. 24; 1978 Reorg. Plan No. 2, § 102, 43 F.R. 36037, 92 Stat. 3783; Pub. L. 108–271, § 8(b), July 7, 2004, 118 Stat. 814.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1914Enacted · Act of Sept. 26, 1914, ch. 311 · 38 Stat. 718
1921Amended · Act of June 10, 1921, ch. 18 · 42 Stat. 24
2004Amended · Pub. L. 108-271 · 118 Stat. 814

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 311 on 1914-09-26.

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