---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 752.601"
title: "5"
number: "752.601"
heading: "Coverage."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/752.601"
---

# §752.601. Coverage.

- (a) **Adverse actions covered.** This subpart applies to suspensions for more than 14 days and removals from the civil service as set forth in [5 U.S.C. 7542](/usc/5/7542.md).
- (b) **Actions excluded.**
  - (1) An agency may not take a suspension action of 14 days or less.
  - (2) This subpart does not apply to actions taken under 5 U.S.C. [1215](/usc/5/1215.md), [3592](/usc/5/3592.md), [3595](/usc/5/3595.md), [7532](/usc/5/7532.md), or [7515](/usc/5/7515.md).
- (c) **Employees covered.** This subpart covers the following appointees:
  - (1) **A career appointee—**
    - (i) Who has completed the probationary period in the Senior Executive Service;
    - (ii) Who is not required to serve a probationary period in the Senior Executive Service; or
    - (iii) Who was covered under [5 U.S.C. 7511](/usc/5/7511.md) immediately before appointment to the Senior Executive Service.
  - (2) **A limited term or limited emergency appointee—**
    - (i) Who received the limited appointment without a break in service in the same agency as the one in which the employee held a career or career-conditional appointment (or an appointment of equivalent tenure as determined by the Office of Personnel Management) in a permanent civil service position outside the Senior Executive Service; and
    - (ii) Who was covered under [5 U.S.C. 7511](/usc/5/7511.md) immediately before appointment to the Senior Executive Service.
- (d) **Employees excluded.** This subpart does not cover an appointee who is serving as a reemployed annuitant.

## Notes

### Amendments

[74 FR 63532, Dec. 4, 2009, as amended at 85 FR 65987, Oct. 16, 2020]

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 6329b, 7504, 7514, 7515, and 7543; 38 U.S.C. 7403. E.O. 10577, 19 FR 7521, 3 CFR, 1954-1958 Comp., p. 218. Link to an amendment published at 91 FR 49115, Aug. 3, 2026.

### Source

Source: 74 FR 63532, Dec. 4, 2009, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[74 FR 63532, Dec. 4, 2009, as amended at 85 FR 65987, Oct. 16, 2020]