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22 U.S.C. § 2505 — Peace Corps volunteer leaders; number; applicability of chapter; benefits
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The President may enroll in the Peace Corps qualified citizens or nationals of the United States whose services are required for supervisory or other special duties or responsibilities in connection with programs under this chapter (referred to in this chapter as “volunteer leaders”). The ratio of the total number of volunteer leaders to the total number of volunteers in service at any one time shall not exceed one to twenty-five. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, all of the provisions of this chapter applicable to volunteers shall be applicable to volunteer leaders, and the term “volunteers” shall include “volunteer leaders”: Provided, however, That—
(1) volunteer leaders shall be entitled to receive a readjustment allowance at a rate not less than $125 for each month of satisfactory service as determined by the President;
(2) spouses and minor children of volunteer leaders may receive such living, travel, and leave allowances, and such housing, transportation, subsistence, and essential special items of clothing, as the President may determine, but the authority contained in this paragraph shall be exercised only under exceptional circumstances;
(3) spouses and minor children of volunteer leaders accompanying them may receive such health care as the President may determine and upon such terms as he may determine, including health care in any facility referred to in [section 2504(e) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section2504/e&num=0&edition=prelim), subject to such conditions as the President may prescribe and subject to reimbursement of appropriations as provided in [section 2504(e) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section2504/e&num=0&edition=prelim);
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The President may enroll in the Peace Corps qualified citizens or nationals of the United States whose services are required for supervisory or other special duties or responsibilities in connection with programs under this chapter (referred to in this chapter as “volunteer leaders”). The ratio of the total number of volunteer leaders to the total number of volunteers in service at any one time shall not exceed one to twenty-five. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, all of the provisions of this chapter applicable to volunteers shall be applicable to volunteer leaders, and the term “volunteers” shall include “volunteer leaders”: Provided, however, That—
(1) volunteer leaders shall be entitled to receive a readjustment allowance at a rate not less than $125 for each month of satisfactory service as determined by the President;
(2) spouses and minor children of volunteer leaders may receive such living, travel, and leave allowances, and such housing, transportation, subsistence, and essential special items of clothing, as the President may determine, but the authority contained in this paragraph shall be exercised only under exceptional circumstances;
(3) spouses and minor children of volunteer leaders accompanying them may receive such health care as the President may determine and upon such terms as he may determine, including health care in any facility referred to in [section 2504(e) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section2504/e&num=0&edition=prelim), subject to such conditions as the President may prescribe and subject to reimbursement of appropriations as provided in [section 2504(e) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section2504/e&num=0&edition=prelim); and
(4) spouses and minor children of volunteer leaders accompanying them may receive such orientation, language, and other training necessary to accomplish the purposes of this chapter as the President may determine.
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**(a) Persons eligible; terms and conditions of service; Federal employee status; racial, sex, religious, or color discrimination** The President may enroll in the Peace Corps for service abroad qualified citizens and nationals of the United States (referred to in this chapter as “volunteers”). The terms and conditions of the enrollment, training (including training under [section 2507a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section2507a&num=0&edition=prelim)), compensation, hours of work, benefits, leave, termination, and all other terms and conditions of the service of volunteers shall be exclusively those set forth in this chapter and those consistent therewith which the President may prescribe; and, except as provided in this chapter, volunteers shall not be deemed officers or employees or otherwise in the service or employment of, or holding office under, the United States for any purpose. In carrying out this subsection, there shall be no discrimination against any person on account of race, sex, creed, or color.
**(b) Living allowances, travel, leave and related items; transfers of supplies and equipment** Volunteers shall be provided with such living, travel, and leave allowances, and such housing, transportation, supplies, equipment, subsistence, and clothing as the President may determine to be necessary for their maintenance and to insure their health and their capacity to serve effectively. Supplies or equipment provided volunteers to insure their capacity to serve effectively may be transferred to the government or to other entities of the country or area with which they have been serving, when no longer necessary for such purpose, and when such transfers would further the purposes of this chapter. Transportatio
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**(a)** The Congress of the United States declares that it is the policy of the United States and the purpose of this chapter to promote world peace and friendship through a Peace Corps, which shall make available to interested countries and areas men and women of the United States qualified for service abroad and willing to serve, under conditions of hardship if necessary, to help the peoples of such countries and areas in meeting their needs for trained manpower, particularly in meeting the basic needs of those living in the poorest areas of such countries, and to help promote a better understanding of the American people on the part of the peoples served and a better understanding of other peoples on the part of the American people.
**(b)** The Congress declares that it is the policy of the United States and a purpose of the Peace Corps to maintain, to the maximum extent appropriate and consistent with programmatic and fiscal considerations, a volunteer corps of at least 10,000 individuals.
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**(a)** For the purpose of this section, “volunteer” means—
(1) a volunteer enrolled in the Peace Corps under [section 2504 of title 22](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section2504&num=0&edition=prelim);
(2) a volunteer leader enrolled in the Peace Corps under [section 2505 of title 22](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section2505&num=0&edition=prelim); and
(3) an applicant for enrollment as a volunteer or volunteer leader during a period of training under [section 2507(a) of title 22](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section2507/a&num=0&edition=prelim) before enrollment.
**(b)** Subject to the provisions of this section, this subchapter applies to a volunteer, except that entitlement to disability compensation payments does not commence until the day after the date of termination of his service as a volunteer.
**(c)** For the purpose of this subchapter—
(1) a volunteer is deemed receiving monthly pay at the minimum rate for GS–7;
(2) a volunteer leader referred to by [section 2505 of title 22](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section2505&num=0&edition=prelim), or a volunteer with one or more minor children as defined in [section 2504 of title 22](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section2504&num=0&edition=prelim), is deemed receiving monthly pay at the minimum rate for GS–11;
(3) an injury suffered by a volunteer when he is outside the several States and the District of Columbia is deemed proximately caused by his employment, unless the injury or disease is—
(A) caused by willful misconduct of the volunteer;
(B) caused by the volunteer’s intention to bring about the injury or de
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TITLE 22—FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
§ 2504a
seq. of Title 5, Government Organization and Employ-
ers], and section 1753 of the Revised Statutes [section
3301 of Title 5], and as President of the United States,
it is hereby ordered as follows:
SECTION 1. Under such regulations as the Office of
Personnel Management may prescribe, the head of any
agency in the Executive Branch may appoint in the
competitive service any person who is certified by the
Director of the Peace Corps as having served satisfac-
torily as a Volunteer or Volunteer Leader under the
Peace Corps Act [see Short Title note set out under
section 2501 of this title] and who passes such examina-
tion as the Office of Personnel Management may pre-
scribe. Any person so appointed shall, upon completion
of the prescribed probationary period, acquire a com-
petitive status.
SEC. 2. The head of any agency in the Executive
Branch having an established merit system in the ex-
cepted service may appoint in such service any person
who is certified by the Director of the Peace Corps as
having served satisfactorily as a Volunteer or Volun-
teer Leader under the Peace Corps Act [see Short Title
note set out under section 2501 of this title] and who
passes such examination as such agency head may pre-
scribe.
SEC. 3. Certificates of satisfactory service for the pur-
poses of this order shall be issued only to persons who
have completed a full term of service (approximately
two years) under the Peace Corps Act [see Short Title
note set out under section 2501 of this title]: Provided,
That such certificates may be issued to persons who
have completed a lesser period of satisfactory service
if, in the judgment of the Director of the Peace Corps,
(1) their service was of sufficient d
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