---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 907"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "907"
heading: "Applicability of other laws"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/907"
units:
  - "Chapter 25 — Pay and Personnel Program for Overseas Teachers"
---

# §907. Applicability of other laws


In the case of any [teacher](/usc/20/901.md?p=2) who—

- (1) is performing services as a [teacher](/usc/20/901.md?p=2) at the close of a school year,
- (2) agrees in writing to serve as a [teacher](/usc/20/901.md?p=2) for the next school year, and
- (3) is employed in another position in the recess period immediately preceding such next school year, or, during such recess period, receives quarters, allowances, or additional compensation referred to in sections [905](/usc/20/905.md) and [906](/usc/20/906.md) of this title, or both, as the case may be,

[section 5533 of title 5](/usc/5/5533.md) shall not apply to such [teacher](/usc/20/901.md?p=2) by reason of any such employment during a recess period or any such receipt of quarters, allowances, or additional compensation, or both, as the case may be.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 86–91, § 10(b), July 17, 1959, 73 Stat. 217; Pub. L. 88–448, title IV, § 401(n), Aug. 19, 1964, 78 Stat. 492.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

“Section 5533 of title 5” substituted in text for “section 301 of the Dual Compensation Act” on authority of Pub. L. 89–554, § 7(b), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 631, the first section of which enacted Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

Section was formerly classified to section 2358(b) of Title 5 period to the general revision and enactment of Title 5 by Pub. L. 89–554, § 1, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 378.

### Amendments

1964—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 88–448 made section 301 of the Dual Compensation Act inapplicable and struck out provisions which referred to former section 62 of title 5 and section 6 of the act of May 10, 1916.