20 USC 905 - Quarters, quarters allowances, and storage

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§ 905.

Quarters, quarters allowances, and storage

(a)

Entitlement

(b)

Furnishing of living quarters or grant of allowance

(c)

Recess periods

Each teacher (other than a teacher employed in a substitute capacity) who is performing services as a teacher at the close of a school year and agrees in writing to serve as a teacher for the next school year may be authorized, for the recess period immediately preceding such next school year—

(1)

quarters or a quarters allowance equal to those authorized by section 5912 of title 5, or

(2)

in lieu of such quarters or quarters allowance, storage (including packing, drayage, unpacking, and transportation to and from storage) of his household effects and personal possessions.

(d)

Failure to report for service; liability to United States

(e)

Employment in other positions during recess periods

(f)

Lease of military family housing by teacher assigned to teach at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, Cuba

(1)

A teacher assigned to teach at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, Cuba, who is not accompanied at such station by any dependent shall be offered for lease any available military family housing at such station that is suitable for occupancy by the teacher and is not needed to house members of the armed forces and dependents accompanying them or other civilian personnel and any dependents accompanying them.

(2)

For any period for which military family housing is leased under paragraph (1) to a teacher described in such paragraph, the teacher shall receive a quarters allowance in the amount determined under subsection (b). The teacher is entitled to such quarters allowance without regard to whether other Government furnished quarters are available for occupancy by the teacher without charge to the teacher.

(Pub. L. 86–91, § 7, July 17, 1959, 73 Stat. 216; Pub. L. 87–172, § 1, Aug. 30, 1961, 75 Stat. 409; Pub. L. 107–314, div. A, title III, § 342, Dec. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 2515.)

cite as: 20 USC 905