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EXECUTIVE ORDER 10354

AMENDMENT OF THE REGULATIONS RELATING TO COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 209(g) of the Public Health Service Act (58 Stat. 687; 42 U.S.C. 210(g)), I hereby prescribe the following amendment of the regulations relating to commissioned officers and employees of the Public Health Service prescribed by Executive Order No. 9993 of August 31, 1948, (1) as amended, as portions of Chapter I, Title 42, Code of Federal Regulations:

Section 22.1 of the said regulations is amended to read as follows:

§ 22.1 Duty requiring intimate contact with leprosy patients; additional pay for civil service officers or employees. Except as provided in § 22.2, every civil service officer or employee of the Service assigned to full-time duty for a period of 30 days or more at a station of the Service devoted to the care of leprosy patients shall receive, while so assigned, in addition to the basic compensation provided by law for his position, a sum equal to 25 per centum of such compensation: Provided, that the rate of total basic and additional compensation received by any such civil service officer or employee on June 30, 1952, under laws and regulations then in effect shall not, so long as the officer or employee remains on continuous assignment to such duty, be reduced prior to July 1, 1957, by reason of the foregoing provisions of this section.

This order shall become effective on July 1, 1952.

HARRY S. TRUMAN
THE WHITE HOUSE,
May 26, 1952

(1) 3 CFR, 1948 Supp., p. 161.