For the purpose of this title—
(1) the “civil service” consists of all appointive positions in the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of the Government of the United States, except positions in the uniformed services;
(2) “armed forces” means the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, and Coast Guard; and
(3) “uniformed services” means the armed forces, the commissioned corps of the Public Health Service, and the commissioned corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
File SHA-256: c6fa3a0ed8b15b73aeaf06af32a1545e6f919c9c8f853f47a108b064dc8a63dc. The original may include catalog metadata, neighboring provisions, or embedded records outside this collection's scope. This page displays the selected federal record. Historical editions and unverified snapshots are not a statement of current law.
Authority boundary: historical or unconfirmed source not current law verified.
Stable record: federal_law:legal_authorities:record_usc_eb71be1f35e4de15b6d18fb6 Source file: Laws/federal/codes/united-states-code/title-5/section-2101-civil-service-armed-forces-uniformed-services--7871713fc1.md Pages: Not recorded – Not recorded Passage SHA-256: b775bd357ff73981e727b89b87bd0d8c75961cda3a0501b1a6171040dc9c9d3e Retained source evidence SHA-256: c6fa3a0ed8b15b73aeaf06af32a1545e6f919c9c8f853f47a108b064dc8a63dc
Source location: Title 5, Chapter 21, § 2101; chapter-021-definitions.md
Stored source content
For the purpose of this title—
(1) the “civil service” consists of all appointive positions in the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of the Government of the United States, except positions in the uniformed services;
(2) “armed forces” means the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, and Coast Guard; and
(3) “uniformed services” means the armed forces, the commissioned corps of the Public Health Service, and the commissioned corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Cross-references
Connections may be documented source relationships, shared citations or nearby passages. Each explains its basis; a connection alone does not establish applicability to your situation.
Federal law — U.S. Code and appendices · legal_authorities
§ 2101. Civil service; armed forces; uniformed
services
For the purpose of this title—
(1) the ‘‘civil service’’ consists of all appoint-
ive positions in the executive, judicial, and
legislative branches of the Government of the
Page 300
TITLE 5—GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
§ 2101a
United States, except positions in the uni-
formed services;
(2) ‘‘armed forces’’ means the Army, Navy,
Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, and
Coast Guard; and
(3) ‘‘uniformed services’’ means the armed
forces, the commissioned corps of the Public
Health Service, and the commissioned corps of
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin-
istration.
(Pub. L. 89–554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 408; Pub. L.
90–83, § 1(4), Sept. 11, 1967, 81 Stat. 196; Pub. L.
96–54, § 2(a)(4), Aug. 14, 1979, 93 Stat. 381; Pub. L.
116–283, div. A, title IX, § 927(a), Jan. 1, 2021, 134
Stat. 3831.)
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
1966 ACT
The section is supplied to establish basis of reference
to employees in this title.
1967 ACT
This section amends various sections [§§ 2101, 4102,
4109, 5541, 8101] of title 5, United States Code, to reflect
1965 Reorganization Plan No. 2 (79 Stat. 1318), effective
July 13, 1965, which consolidated the Coast and Geo-
detic Survey and the Weather Bureau to form a new
agency in the Department of Commerce to be known as
the Environmental Science Services Administration.
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
2021—Par. (2). Pub. L. 116–283 inserted ‘‘Space Force,’’
after ‘‘Marine Corps’’.
1979—Par. (3). Pub. L. 96–54 substituted ‘‘National
Oceanic and Atmospheric’’ for ‘‘Environmental Science
Services’’.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1979 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 96–54 effective July 12, 1979,
see section 2(b) of Pub.