---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 5110"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "5110"
heading: "Review of classification of positions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/5110"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart D — Pay and Allowances"
  - "Chapter 51 — Classification"
---

# §5110. Review of classification of positions

- (a) The [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3) of Personnel Management, from time to time, shall review such number of [positions](/usc/5/5102.md?p=a-3) in each [agency](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1) as will enable the [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3) to determine whether the [agency](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1) is placing [positions](/usc/5/5102.md?p=a-3) in classes and [grades](/usc/5/5102.md?p=a-5) in conformance with or consistently with published standards.
- (b) When the [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3) finds under [subsection (a)](#a) of this section that a [position](/usc/5/5102.md?p=a-3) is not placed in its proper class and [grade](/usc/5/5102.md?p=a-5) in conformance with published standards or that a [position](/usc/5/5102.md?p=a-3) for which there is no published standard is not placed in the class and [grade](/usc/5/5102.md?p=a-5) consistently with published standards, it shall, after consultation with appropriate officials of the [agency](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1) concerned, place the [position](/usc/5/5102.md?p=a-3) in its appropriate class and [grade](/usc/5/5102.md?p=a-5) and shall certify this action to the [agency](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1). The [agency](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1) shall act in accordance with the certificate, and the certificate is binding on all administrative, certifying, payroll, disbursing, and accounting officials.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 455; Pub. L. 95–454, title IX, § 906(a)(2), (3), Oct. 13, 1978, 92 Stat. 1224.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Derivation | U.S. Code | Revised Statutes and<br>Statutes at Large |
| (a) | 5 U.S.C. 1102(b). | Oct. 28, 1949, ch. 782, § 502(b), 63 Stat. 958. |
| (b) | 5 U.S.C. 1103. | Oct. 28, 1949, ch. 782, § 503, 63 Stat. 958. |

In subsection (b), the words “to which this chapter applies” are omitted as unnecessary in view of section 5102. The words “appropriate officials” and “administrative, certifying, payroll, disbursing, and accounting officials” are substituted for “appropriate officers and employees” and “administrative, certifying, payroll, disbursing, and accounting officers”, respectively, to preserve the application to members of the uniformed services who are excluded from the definition of “officer” and “employee”.

Standard changes are made to conform with the definitions applicable and the style of this title as outlined in the preface to the report.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1978—Subsecs. (a), (b). Pub. L. 95–454 substituted “Office of Personnel Management” and “Office” for “Civil Service Commission” and “Commission”, respectively.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1978 Amendment

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