---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 3349b"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "3349b"
heading: "Holdover provisions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/3349b"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart B — Employment and Retention"
  - "Chapter 33 — Examination, Selection, and Placement"
  - "Subchapter III — Details, Vacancies, and Appointments"
---

# §3349b. Holdover provisions


Sections [3345](/usc/5/3345.md) through [3349a](/usc/5/3349a.md) shall not be construed to affect any statute that authorizes a [person](/usc/5/7103.md?p=a-1) to continue to serve in any [office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3)—

- (1) after the expiration of the term for which such [person](/usc/5/7103.md?p=a-1) is appointed; and
- (2) until a successor is appointed or a specified period of time has expired.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 105–277, div. C, title I, § 151(b), Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–615.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective 30 days after Oct. 21, 1998, and applicable to any office that becomes vacant after such effective date, with certain exceptions, see section 151(d) of Pub. L. 105–277, set out as a note under section 3345 of this title.