5 U.S.C. § 9201 — Definitions

In this chapter: (1) “agency” means “Executive agency” as defined in section 105 and also includes (A) the United States Postal Service and Postal Regulatory Commission and (B) the Executive Office of the President. (2) “Appointing authority” means an executive-branch employee authorized to appoint people to civil-service positions. (3) “Conditional offer” means a civil-service employment offer conditioned on the results of a criminal-history inquiry. (4) “Criminal history record information” (A) has the meaning in section 9101(a), except as provided in (B) and (C); (B) includes information described in the first sentence of section 9101(a)(2) that law has sealed or expunged; and (C) includes information collected by a criminal-justice agency about an act or alleged act of juvenile delinquency analogous to criminal-history information, including information sealed or expunged by law. (5) “Suspension” has the meaning in section 7501. This section does not define the quoted terms it incorporates from those other sections.