[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 1, Parts 1 to 699]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR550.106]

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                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
                CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
 
PART 550--PAY ADMINISTRATION (GENERAL)--Table of Contents
 
                         Subpart A--Premium Pay
 
Sec. 550.106  Annual maximum earnings limitation for work in connection with an emergency.

    (a) For any pay period in which the head of an agency, his or her 
designee, or the Office of Personnel Management on its own motion 
determines that an emergency exists, an employee shall be paid premium 
pay under the annual limitation described in paragraph (c) of this 
section, instead of under the biweekly limitation described in 
Sec. 550.105(a) if the employee has been determined by the head of the 
employing

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agency, or his or her designee, to be performing work in connection with 
the emergency.
    (b) The head of an agency, or his or her designee, shall make the 
determination under paragraph (a) of this section as soon as practicable 
after the emergency begins. Entitlement to premium pay under the annual 
limitation shall be effective on the first day of the pay period in 
which the emergency began.
    (c) In any calendar year during which an employee has been 
determined to be performing work in connection with an emergency, he or 
she shall be paid premium pay under this subpart to the extent that the 
payment does not cause the total of his or her basic pay and premium pay 
for the calendar year to exceed the maximum rate for GS-15 in effect on 
the last day of the calendar year, including--
    (1) A locality-based comparability payment under 5 U.S.C. 5304; and
    (2) A special salary rate established under 5 U.S.C. 5305.
    (d) This section does not apply to--
    (1) An employee of the Federal Aviation Administration or the 
Department of Defense who is paid premium pay under 5 U.S.C. 5546a; or
    (2) A law enforcement officer.

[57 FR 31630, July 17, 1992, as amended at 58 FR 3201, Jan. 8, 1993; 59 
FR 66332, Dec. 28, 1994; 61 FR 3542, Feb. 1, 1996; 61 FR 50535, Sept. 
26, 1996; 61 FR 51319, Oct. 1, 1996]