---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 550.181"
title: "5"
number: "550.181"
heading: "Coverage."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/550.181"
---

# §550.181. Coverage.

- (a) Each employee meeting the definition of criminal investigator in [§ 550.103](/cfr/5/550.103.md), and fulfilling the conditions and requirements of [5 U.S.C. 5545a](/usc/5/5545a.md) and [§§ 550.181 through 550.186](/cfr/5/550.181..550.186.md), must receive availability pay to compensate the criminal investigator for unscheduled duty in excess of the 40-hour workweek based on the needs of the employing agency, except as provided in [paragraph (b)](#b) of this section.
- (b) Any Office of Inspector General that employs fewer than five criminal investigators may elect not to cover such criminal investigators under the availability pay provisions of [5 U.S.C. 5545a](/usc/5/5545a.md).

## Notes

### Amendments

[64 FR 4520, Jan. 29, 1999]

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 5304 note, 5305 note, 5504(d), 5541(2)(iv), 5545a(h)(2)(B) and (i), 5547(b) and (c), 5548, and 6101(c); sections 407 and 2316, Pub. L. 105-277, 112 Stat. 2681-101 and 2681-828 (5 U.S.C. 5545a); section 2(h), Pub. L. 113-277, 128 Stat. 3005; E.O. 12748, 3 CFR, 1992 Comp., p. 316.

### Source

Source: 33 FR 12458, Sept. 4, 1968, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[64 FR 4520, Jan. 29, 1999]