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33 U.S.C. § 940 — Deputy commissioners

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33 U.S.C. § 940 — Deputy commissioners

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**(a) Appointment; use of personnel and facilities of boards, commissions, or other agencies; expenses and salaries** The Secretary may appoint as deputy commissioners any member of any board, commission, or other agency of a State to act as deputy commissioner for any compensation district or part thereof in such State, and may make arrangements with such board, commission, or other agency for the use of the personnel and facilities thereof in the administration of this chapter. The Secretary may make such arrangements as may be deemed advisable by him for the payment of expenses of such board, commission, or other agency, incurred in the administration of this chapter pursuant to this section, and for the payment of salaries to such board, commission, or other agency, or the members thereof, and may pay any amounts agreed upon to the proper officers of the State, upon vouchers approved by the Secretary. **(b) Appointment in Territories and District of Columbia; compensation** In any Territory of the United States or in the District of Columbia a person holding an office under the United States may be appointed deputy commissioner and for services rendered as deputy commissioner may be paid compensation, in addition to that he is receiving from the United States, in an amount fixed by the Secretary in accordance with chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5. **(c) Transfers to other districts; temporary details** Deputy commissioners (except deputy commissioners appointed under subsection (a) of this section) may be transferred from one compensation district to another and may be temporarily detailed from one compensation district for service in another in the discretion of the Secretary. **(d) Maintaining offices** Each deputy commissioner shall maintain and keep open during reasonable business hours an office, at a place designated by the Secretary, for the transaction of business under this chapter, at which office he shall keep his official records and papers. Such office shall be furnished and equipped by the Secretary, who shall also furnish the deputy commissioner with all necessary clerical and other assistants, records, books, blanks, and supplies. Wherever practicable such office shall be located in a building owned or leased by the United States; otherwise the Secretary shall rent suitable quarters. **(e) Records and papers** If any deputy commissioner is removed from office, or for any reason ceases to act as such deputy commissioner, all of his official records and papers and office equipment shall be transferred to his successor in office or, if there be no successor, then to the Secretary or to a deputy commissioner designated by the Secretary. **(f) Conflict of interest** Neither a deputy commissioner or Board member nor any business associate of a deputy commissioner or Board member shall appear as attorney in any proceeding under this chapter, and no deputy commissioner or Board member shall act in any such case in which he is interested, or when he is employed by any party in interest or related to any party in interest by consanguinity or affinity within the third degree, as determined by the common law.

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33 U.S.C. § 901 — Short title

This chapter may be cited as “Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act.”

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33 U.S.C. § 902 — Definitions

When used in this chapter— (1) The term “person” means individual, partnership, corporation, or association. (2) The term “injury” means accidental injury or death arising out of and in the course of employment, and such occupational disease or infection as arises naturally out of such employment or as naturally or unavoidably results from such accidental injury, and includes an injury caused by the willful act of a third person directed against an employee because of his employment. (3) The term “employee” means any person engaged in maritime employment, including any longshoreman or other person engaged in longshoring operations, and any harbor-worker including a ship repairman, shipbuilder, and ship-breaker, but such term does not include— (A) individuals employed exclusively to perform office clerical, secretarial, security, or data processing work; (B) individuals employed by a club, camp, recreational operation, restaurant, museum, or retail outlet; (C) individuals employed by a marina and who are not engaged in construction, replacement, or expansion of such marina (except for routine maintenance); (D) individuals who (i) are employed by suppliers, transporters, or vendors, (ii) are temporarily doing business on the premises of an employer described in paragraph (4), and (iii) are not engaged in work normally performed by employees of that employer under this chapter; (E) aquaculture workers; (F) individuals employed to build any recreational vessel under sixty-five feet in length, or individuals employed to repair any recreational vessel, or to dismantle any part of a recreational vessel in connection with the repair of such vessel; (G) a master or member of a crew of any vessel; or (H) any person engaged by a master to load or unload

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33 U.S.C. § 939 — Administration by Secretary

**(a) Prescribing rules and regulations; appointing and fixing compensation of employees; making expenditures** Except as otherwise specifically provided, the Secretary shall administer the provisions of this chapter, and for such purpose the Secretary is authorized (1) to make such rules and regulations; (2) to appoint and fix the compensation of such temporary technical assistants and medical advisers, and, subject to the provisions of the civil service laws, to appoint, and, in accordance with chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5, to fix the compensation of such deputy commissioners (except deputy commissioners appointed under subsection (a) of [section 940 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-section940&num=0&edition=prelim)) and other officers and employees; and (3) to make such expenditures (including expenditures for personal services and rent at the seat of government and elsewhere, for law books, books of reference, periodicals, and for printing and binding) as may be necessary in the administration of this chapter. All expenditures of the Secretary in the administration of this chapter shall be allowed and paid as provided in section 945 11 See References in Text note below. of this title upon the presentation of itemized vouchers therefor approved by the Secretary. **(b) Establishing compensation districts** The Secretary shall establish compensation districts, to include the high seas and the areas within the United States to which this chapter applies, and shall assign to each such district one or more deputy commissioners, as the Secretary deems advisable. Judicial proceedings under sections 918 and 921 of this title in respect of any injury or death occurring on the high seas shall be insti

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33 U.S.C. § 940 — Deputy commissioners

Page 312 TITLE 33—NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS § 940 EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1972 AMENDMENT Amendment by Pub. L. 92–576 effective 30 days after Oct. 27, 1972, see section 22 of Pub. L. 92–576, set out as a note under section 902 of this title. REPEALS Act Oct. 28, 1949, ch. 782, cited as a credit to this sec- tion, was repealed (subject to a savings clause) by Pub. L. 89–554, Sept. 6, 1966, § 8, 80 Stat. 632, 655. § 940. Deputy commissioners (a) Appointment; use of personnel and facilities of boards, commissions, or other agencies; expenses and salaries The Secretary may appoint as deputy commis- sioners any member of any board, commission, or other agency of a State to act as deputy com- missioner for any compensation district or part thereof in such State, and may make arrange- ments with such board, commission, or other agency for the use of the personnel and facilities thereof in the administration of this chapter. The Secretary may make such arrangements as may be deemed advisable by him for the pay- ment of expenses of such board, commission, or other agency, incurred in the administration of this chapter pursuant to this section, and for the payment of salaries to such board, commis- sion, or other agency, or the members thereof, and may pay any amounts agreed upon to the proper officers of the State, upon vouchers ap- proved by the Secretary. (b) Appointment in Territories and District of Columbia; compensation In any Territory of the United States or in the District of Columbia a person holding an office under the United States may be appointed dep- uty commissioner and for services rendered as deputy commissioner may be paid compensa- tion, in addition to that he is receiving from the United States, in an amount fixed by the Sec- reta

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