5 U.S.C. § 5725 — Transportation expenses; employees assigned to danger areas
submitted 60 years ago by Pub. L. 89-554 to r/title-5-GOVERNMENT-ORGANIZATION-AND-EMPLOYEES · 356 words · no verdicts yet
When an employee serves in a danger area where the family must be evacuated or cannot accompany the employee, Government funds may move the family, belongings, and pets to a chosen safe location. The funds may also return them when the employee later serves where the restrictions do not apply.
(a) If an employee is serving, transferred, or assigned to a place the agency head designates as a zone from which the immediate family should be evacuated or to which it cannot go, because military or other conditions create imminent danger to life or property or seriously harm the family’s health, safety, or living accommodations, Government funds may move the family, household goods, personal effects, and family pets under agency regulations. The employee chooses the destination. If circumstances prevent that choice, or the agency cannot practically determine it, the family may choose. If the chosen place is itself in a zone where family movement is prohibited, the employee or family may choose an alternate place.
(b) If the employee is assigned to a duty station where the subsection (a) restrictions do not exclude the family, Government funds may move the family and household goods and personal effects from the chosen or alternate place to that station.
(c)(1) Pet transportation under subsection (a) includes shipment costs and quarantine costs. (2) Payments or reimbursements for pets must follow terms and conditions that (A) the agency head sets by regulation and (B) are, as far as practical, the same as the rules under 37 U.S.C. § 453(c) and (d) for uniformed-service members’ pets, including rules about the types, size, and number of pets covered.
When an employee of the Government is on duty, or is transferred or assigned to duty, at a place designated by the head of the agency concerned as inside a zone—
from which his immediate family should be evacuated; or
to which they are not permitted to accompany him;
because of military or other reasons which create imminent danger to life or property, or adverse living conditions which seriously affect the health, safety, or accommodations of the immediate family, Government funds may be used to transport his immediate family and household goods, personal effects, and family household pets, under regulations prescribed by the head of the agency, to a location designated by the employee. When circumstances prevent the employee from designating a location, or it is administratively impracticable to determine his intent, the immediate family may designate the location. When the designated location is inside a zone to which movement of families is prohibited under this subsection, the employee or his immediate family may designate an alternate location.
When the employee is assigned to a duty station from which his immediate family is not excluded by the restrictions in subsection (a) of this section, Government funds may be used to transport his immediate family and household goods and personal effects from the designated or alternate location to the duty station.
The expenses authorized under subsection (a) shall, with respect to the transport of family household pets, include the expenses for the shipment of and the payment of any quarantine costs for such pets.
Any payment or reimbursement under this section in connection with the transport of family household pets shall be subject to terms and conditions which—
the head of the agency shall by regulation prescribe; and
shall, to the extent practicable, be the same as would apply under regulations prescribed under subsections (c) and (d) of section 453 of title 37 in connection with the transport of family household pets of members of the uniformed services, including regulations relating to the types, size, and number of pets for which such payment or reimbursement may be provided.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 89–554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 503; Pub. L. 105–264, § 6(6), Oct. 19, 1998, 112 Stat. 2356; Pub. L. 112–239, div. A, title XI, § 1106, Jan. 2, 2013, 126 Stat. 1973; Pub. L. 117–263, div. A, title VI, § 626(b)(2), Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 2628.)
- 1966Enacted · Pub. L. 89-554 · 80 Stat. 503
- 1998Amended · Pub. L. 105-264 · 112 Stat. 2356
- 2013Amended · Pub. L. 112-239 · 126 Stat. 1973
- 2022Amended · Pub. L. 117-263 · 136 Stat. 2628
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 89-554 on 1966-09-06.
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