Source: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/7/1765a
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7 USC § 1765a - Agricultural Trade Offices
United States Agricultural Trade Office shall be directed and administered by an Agricultural Trade Officer who by reason of training, experience, and attainments is qualified to carry out the purposes of this subchapter. Such Officer shall be appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture.
Appointment and compensation of officers
Each Agricultural Trade Officer may be appointed without regard to the provisions of title 5 governing appointments in the competitive service, and may be paid without regard to the provisions of chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5 relating to classification and General Schedule pay rates, except that no Agricultural Trade Officer (1)
may be paid basic pay at a rate in excess of the maximum annual rate of basic pay payable for GS–17 of the General Schedule under section 5332 of such title, or (2)
may be paid at a rate in excess of the highest rate paid to an Agricultural Counselor or Attache, as the case may be, who is appointed under subchapter I of this chapter to the nation in which such Officer is to serve.
Each Agricultural Trade Officer shall, through the Agricultural Counselor or Attache or other senior representative of the Secretary of Agriculture in each nation in which the United States Agricultural Trade Office administered by such Officer exercises its functions, keep the Chief of the United States diplomatic mission fully and currently informed with respect to all activities and operations of such Office.
Personnel; employment of local nationals
(Aug. 28, 1954, ch. 1041, title VI, § 605A, as added Pub. L. 95–501, title IV, § 401(1),Oct. 21, 1978, 92 Stat. 1688; amended Pub. L. 96–465, title II, § 2206(b)(1),Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2162.)
1980—Subsec. (h). Pub. L. 96–465substituted “members of the Foreign Service” for “Foreign Service Personnel”.