---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 301.203"
title: "5"
number: "301.203"
heading: "Duration of appointment."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/301.203"
---

# §301.203. Duration of appointment.

- (a) **An appointment under this subpart is of indefinite duration unless otherwise limited.**
- (b) An agency may make an overseas limited term appointment for a period not in excess of 5 years when a time limitation is imposed as a part of a general program for rotating career and career-conditional employees between overseas areas and the United States after specified periods of overseas service.
- (c) An agency may make an overseas limited appointment for 1 year or less to meet administrative needs for temporary employment. An agency may extend such an appointment for up to a maximum of 1 additional year.
- (d) Upon request from the headquarters level of a Department or agency, OPM may approve, or delegate to agencies the authority to approve, exceptions to the time limits set out in [paragraph (c)](#c) of this section.

## Notes

### Amendments

[44 FR 54691, Sept. 21, 1979, as amended at 60 FR 3057, Jan. 13, 1995]

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 3301, 3302; E.O. 10577, 19 FR 7521, 3 CFR, 1954-1958 Comp., p. 218, as amended by E.O. 10641, 20 FR 8137, 3 CFR, 1954-1958 Comp., p. 274, unless otherwise noted; E.O. 14284, 90 FR 17729.

### Source

Source: 44 FR 54691, Sept. 21, 1979, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[44 FR 54691, Sept. 21, 1979, as amended at 60 FR 3057, Jan. 13, 1995]