---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 553"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "553"
heading: "Terminations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/553"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Homeland Security Organization"
  - "Subchapter XII — Transition"
  - "Part B — Transitional Provisions"
---

# §553. Terminations


Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, whenever all the [functions](/usc/6/101.md?p=9) vested by law in any [agency](/usc/6/671.md?p=1) have been transferred pursuant to this chapter, each position and office the incumbent of which was authorized to receive compensation at the rates prescribed for an office or position at level II, III, IV, or V, of the Executive Schedule, shall terminate.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–296, title XV, § 1513, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2311.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 107–296, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2135, known as the Homeland Security Act of 2002, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 101 of this title and Tables.

Levels II, III, IV, and V, of the Executive Schedule, referred to in text, are set out in sections 5313, 5314, 5315, and 5316, respectively, of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.