---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 3112"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "3112"
heading: "Disabled veterans; noncompetitive appointment"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/3112"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart B — Employment and Retention"
  - "Chapter 31 — Authority for Employment"
  - "Subchapter I — Employment Authorities"
---

# §3112. Disabled veterans; noncompetitive appointment


Under such regulations as the [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3) of Personnel Management shall prescribe, an [agency](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1) may make a noncompetitive appointment leading to conversion to career or career-conditional employment of a disabled veteran who has a compensable [service](/usc/5/8401.md?p=26)-connected disability of 30 percent or more.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 95–454, title III, § 307(b)(1), Oct. 13, 1978, 92 Stat. 1147.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective 90 days after Oct. 13, 1978, see section 907 of Pub. L. 95–454, set out as an Effective Date of 1978 Amendment note under section 1101 of this title.