---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 5735"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "5735"
heading: "Travel, transportation, and relocation expenses of employees transferring to the United States Postal Service"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/5735"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart D — Pay and Allowances"
  - "Chapter 57 — Travel, Transportation, and Subsistence"
  - "Subchapter II — Travel and Transportation Expenses; New Appointees, Student Trainees, and Transferred Employees"
---

# §5735. Travel, transportation, and relocation expenses of employees transferring to the United States Postal Service

- (a) **In General.—** Notwithstanding any other provision of law, [employees](/usc/5/5701.md?p=2) of the [Department](/usc/5/10101.md?p=4) of Defense described in [subsection (b)](#b) may be authorized travel, transportation, and relocation expenses and allowances in connection with appointments referred to in such subsection under the same conditions and to the same extent authorized by this subchapter for transferred [employees](/usc/5/5701.md?p=2).
- (b) **Covered Employees.—** [Subsection (a)](#a) applies to any [employee](/usc/5/5701.md?p=2) of the [Department](/usc/5/10101.md?p=4) of Defense who—
  - (1) is scheduled for separation from the [Department](/usc/5/10101.md?p=4), other than for cause;
  - (2) is selected for appointment to a continuing [position](/usc/5/5102.md?p=a-3) with the [United States](/usc/5/5721.md?p=6) Postal [Service](/usc/5/8401.md?p=26); and
  - (3) accepts the appointment.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title III, § 345(a)(1), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2723.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title III, § 345(b), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2724, provided that: “The amendments made by subsection (a) [enacting this section] shall apply to persons separated from employment with the Department of Defense on or after the date of the enactment of this Act [Oct. 5, 1994].”