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# 5 U.S.C. § 3112 - Disabled veterans; noncompetitive appointment

## Text

Under such regulations as the Office of Personnel Management shall prescribe, an agency may make a noncompetitive appointment leading to conversion to career or career-conditional employment of a disabled veteran who has a compensable service-connected disability of 30 percent or more.

(Added Pub. L. 95–454, title III, § 307(b)(1), Oct. 13, 1978, 92 Stat. 1147.)

## Notes

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective DateSection effective 90 days after Oct. 13, 1978, see section 907 of Pub. L. 95–454, set out as an Effective Date of 1978 Amendment note under section 1101 of this title.