---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 3113"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "3113"
heading: "Restriction on reemployment after conviction of certain crimes"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/3113"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart B — Employment and Retention"
  - "Chapter 31 — Authority for Employment"
  - "Subchapter I — Employment Authorities"
---

# §3113. Restriction on reemployment after conviction of certain crimes


An [employee](/usc/5/4701.md?p=a-2) shall be separated from [service](/usc/5/8401.md?p=26) and barred from reemployment in the [Federal service](/usc/5/8521.md?p=a-1), if—

- (1) the [employee](/usc/5/4701.md?p=a-2) is convicted of a violation of [section 201(b) of title 18](/usc/18/201.md?p=b); and
- (2) such violation related to conduct prohibited under [section 1010(a)](/usc/5/1010.md?p=a) of the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act ([21 U.S.C. 960(a)](/usc/21/960.md?p=a)).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 105–61, title VI, § 638(a), Oct. 10, 1997, 111 Stat. 1316.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Pub. L. 105–61, title VI, § 638(c), Oct. 10, 1997, 111 Stat. 1317, provided that: “This section [enacting this section] shall apply during fiscal year 1998 and each fiscal year thereafter.”