22 U.S.C. · Foreign Relations and Intercourse
22 U.S.C. § 3947

Entry levels for Foreign Service officer candidates

Ch. 52 — FOREIGN SERVICE
Title 22 U.S.C. ● ACTIVE Primary Source Ch. 52
Statutory Text

22 U.S.C. § 3947 — Entry levels for Foreign Service officer candidates

U.S.C. Title 22 - FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE 22 U.S.C. United States Code, 2023 Edition Title 22 - FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE CHAPTER 52 - FOREIGN SERVICE SUBCHAPTER III - APPOINTMENTS Sec. 3947 - Entry levels for Foreign Service officer candidates From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov

§3947. Entry levels for Foreign Service officer candidates

A career candidate for appointment as a Foreign Service officer may not be initially assigned under section 3964 of this title to a salary class higher than class 4 in the Foreign Service Schedule unless— (1) the Secretary determines in an individual case that assignment to a higher salary class is warranted because of the qualifications (including foreign language competence) and experience of the candidate and the needs of the Service; or (2) at the time such initial assignment is made, the candidate is serving under a career appointment in the Service and is receiving a salary at a rate equal to or higher than the minimum rate payable for class 4 in the Foreign Service Schedule.

(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, §307, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2086.)

Source: uscode.house.gov — public domain Official Source ↗
Root-LD Entity Data
◈ Machine-Readable Provenance Record Root-LD v1.0 · boisestandard.org
Federation ID
BS-USC22-SEC-2D82F7
Entity Class
STATUTE / FEDERAL-CODE-SECTION
Domain Signature
boisestandard.org
Citation
22 U.S.C. § 3947
Jurisdiction
Federal — United States
Status
✓ ACTIVE
Source
PRIMARY-SOURCE
Source Verified
✓ TRUE
Content Hash
7dcb0b6f4c4e5fe1...
Semantic Edges
Pending — corpus passes queued
The statutory text of 22 U.S.C. § 3947 is reproduced from the official United States Code as published by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives (uscode.house.gov).
Navigate Corpus — Title 22
◈ Provenance
boisestandard.org United States Law U.S. Code Title 22 22 U.S.C. § 3947