Files
republic-os/legal/us/code/title-16/chapter-70/section-5003.md
T
Fabio 76b8ec33a7 Legal corpus: the complete U.S. Code (59,740 sections, all 53 titles)
Ingested titles 12–51 and 54 from OLRC USLM XML @119-100 (the whole Code
now, uniform edition; Title 53 is reserved/empty). LegalText 11,221 ->
59,740; repo total 105,704 records. Deterministic (byte-identical rerun,
verified on Title 42's 8,356 sections); make check green. make
legal-us-code default now covers every title.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-06 10:51:44 -04:00

4.5 KiB
Raw Blame History

type, title, description, jurisdiction, corpus, kind, title_number, title_name, chapter_number, chapter_name, section, citation, status, release_point, release_date, source, source_url, source_identifier, source_file, source_hash, raw_snapshot_hash, text_hash, retrieved_at, confidence, tags
type title description jurisdiction corpus kind title_number title_name chapter_number chapter_name section citation status release_point release_date source source_url source_identifier source_file source_hash raw_snapshot_hash text_hash retrieved_at confidence tags
LegalText 16 U.S.C. § 5003 United States Commissioners us united_states_code code_section 16 CONSERVATION 70 NORTH PACIFIC ANADROMOUS STOCKS CONVENTION 5003 16 U.S.C. § 5003 current 119-100 2026-06-26 official https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc16@119-100.zip /us/usc/t16/s5003 data/legal/raw/us/code/title-16/usc16.xml 05f48d56baf890d1180c212831e6685b9d6cb1e42221f2dffad938db522c8474 7be8950da5a93cac7c98e4576ce00340f2aba5e8e46d29915382c203c421d503 e618b2f1916566951e8e7cd4f9699a311da2622e3ca6dff8049e724e15a98e3c 2026-07-04 official
legal
us-code

16 U.S.C. § 5003 - United States Commissioners

Text

(a) Commissioners The United States shall be represented on the Commission by not more than three United States Commissioners to be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the President. Each United States Commissioner shall be appointed for a term of office not to exceed 4 years, but is eligible for reappointment. Individuals serving as such Commissioners shall not be considered to be Federal employees while performing such service, except for purposes of injury compensation or tort claims liability as provided in chapter 81 of title 5 and chapter 171 of title 28. Of the Commissioners—

(1) one shall be an official of the United States Government;

(2) one shall be a resident of the State of Alaska; and

(3) one shall be a resident of the State of Washington.

An individual is not eligible for appointment under paragraph (2) or (3) as a Commissioner unless the individual is knowledgeable or experienced concerning the anadromous stocks and ecologically related species of the North Pacific Ocean.

(b) Alternate Commissioners The Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, may designate from time to time Alternate United States Commissioners to the Commission. An Alternate United States Commissioner may exercise all designated powers and duties of a United States Commissioner in the absence of a duly designated Commissioner for whatever reason. The number of such Alternate United States Commissioners that may be designated for any such meeting shall be limited to the number of authorized United States Commissioners that will not be present.

(c) United States Section The United States Section, in consultation with the Advisory Panel established in section 5004 of this title, shall identify and recommend to the Commission research needs and priorities for anadromous stocks and ecologically related species subject to the Convention, and oversee the United States research programs involving such fisheries, stocks, and species.

(d) Compensation United States Commissioners and Alternate United States Commissioners shall receive no compensation for their services as Commissioners and Alternate Commissioners.

(e) Travel expenses (1) In general The Secretary may pay the necessary travel expenses of the United States Commissioners and Alternate United States Commissioners in carrying out the duties of the Commission in accordance with the Federal Travel Regulations and sections 5701, 5702, 5704 through 5708, and 5731 of title 5.

(2) Reimbursement The Secretary of Commerce may reimburse the Secretary for amounts expended by the Secretary under this subparagraph.11 So in original. Probably should be “subsection”.

(Pub. L. 102567, title VIII, § 804, Oct. 29, 1992, 106 Stat. 4310; Pub. L. 102587, title VIII, § 8004, Nov. 4, 1992, 106 Stat. 5099; Pub. L. 106562, title III, § 304, Dec. 23, 2000, 114 Stat. 2806; Pub. L. 114327, title I, § 121(b)(1), Dec. 16, 2016, 130 Stat. 1984.)

Notes

Editorial Notes

Codification Title VIII of Pub. L. 102567 and Pub. L. 102587 enacted identical sections. Title VIII of Pub. L. 102587 was repealed by Pub. L. 106562.

Amendments2016—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 114327 added subsec. (e). 2000—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 106562, § 304(b), inserted after second sentence “Individuals serving as such Commissioners shall not be considered to be Federal employees while performing such service, except for purposes of injury compensation or tort claims liability as provided in chapter 81 of title 5 and chapter 171 of title 28.”