Executive Order 3501

Rule IX of the Civil Service Rules is hereby amended by adding at the end of Section 1, paragraph (a) the following:

"When the Commission and the appointing officer are in agreement that the public interest requires such unusual action, the Commission may authorize waiver of the one-year limit herein prescribed under the following limitations: Two years where service has been two years but less than three years; three years where service has been three years but less than four years; four years where service has been four years but less than five years; and five years where service has been five years or more."

Section 2 of the Rule will be stricken out.

As amended, Paragraph (a) will read:

"Unless otherwise provided hereinafter a person may be reinstated only to the department or independent Government establishment from which separated and upon requisition made within one year from the date of his separation. When the Commission and the appointing officer are in agreement that the public Interest requires such unusual action, the Commission may authorize waiver of the one year limit herein prescribed under the following limitations: Two years where service has been two years but less than three years; three years where service has been three years but less than four years; four years where service has been four years but less than five years; and five years where service has been five years or more."

Warren G. Harding

The White House,

June 25, 1921.