---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 9506"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "9506"
heading: "Limited appointments to career reserved Senior Executive Service positions"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/9506"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart I — Miscellaneous"
  - "Chapter 95 — Personnel Flexibilities Relating to the Internal Revenue Service"
---

# §9506. Limited appointments to career reserved Senior Executive Service positions

- (a) In the application of [section 3132](/usc/5/3132.md), a “career reserved [position](/usc/5/5531.md?p=2)” in the Internal Revenue [Service](/usc/5/8331.md?p=12) means a [position](/usc/5/5531.md?p=2) designated under [section 3132(b)](/usc/5/3132.md?p=b) which may be filled only by—
  - (1) a career appointee; or
  - (2) a limited emergency appointee or a limited term appointee—
    - (A) who, immediately upon entering the career reserved [position](/usc/5/5531.md?p=2), was serving under a career or career-conditional appointment outside the Senior Executive [Service](/usc/5/8331.md?p=12); or
    - (B) whose limited emergency or limited term appointment is approved in advance by the Office of Personnel Management.
- (b)
  - (1) The number of [positions](/usc/5/5531.md?p=2) described under [subsection (a)](#a) which are filled by an appointee as described under [paragraph (2)](#b-2) of such subsection may not exceed 10 percent of the total number of Senior Executive [Service](/usc/5/8331.md?p=12) [positions](/usc/5/5531.md?p=2) in the Internal Revenue [Service](/usc/5/8331.md?p=12).
  - (2) Notwithstanding [section 3132](/usc/5/3132.md)—
    - (A) the term of an appointee described under [subsection (a)(2)](#a-2) may be for any period not to exceed 3 years; and
    - (B) such an appointee may serve—
      - (i) two such terms; or
      - (ii) two such terms in addition to any unexpired term applicable at the time of appointment.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 105–206, title I, § 1201(a), July 22, 1998, 112 Stat. 714.)