50 U.S.C. § 405 : US Code - Section 405: Advisory committees; appointment; compensation of part- time personnel; applicability of other laws

Search 50 U.S.C. § 405 : US Code - Section 405: Advisory committees; appointment; compensation of part- time personnel; applicability of other laws

(a) The Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the
Director of National Intelligence, and the National Security
Council, acting through its Executive Secretary, are authorized to
appoint such advisory committees and to employ, consistent with
other provisions of this Act, such part-time advisory personnel as
they may deem necessary in carrying out their respective functions
and the functions of agencies under their control. Persons holding
other offices or positions under the United States for which they
receive compensation, while serving as members of such committees,
shall receive no additional compensation for such service. Retired
members of the uniformed services employed by the Director of
National Intelligence who hold no other office or position under
the United States for which they receive compensation, other
members of such committees and other part-time advisory personnel
so employed may serve without compensation or may receive
compensation at a daily rate not to exceed the daily equivalent of
the rate of pay in effect for grade GS-18 of the General Schedule
established by section 5332 of title 5, as determined by the
appointing authority.
(b) Service of an individual as a member of any such advisory
committee, or in any other part-time capacity for a department or
agency hereunder, shall not be considered as service bringing such
individual within the provisions of section 203, 205, or 207 of
title 18, unless the act of such individual, which by such section
is made unlawful when performed by an individual referred to in
such section, is with respect to any particular matter which
directly involves a department or agency which such person is
advising or in which such department or agency is directly
interested.