§ 421. Payment of residents for services

• (a) The Chief Operating Officer is authorized to accept for the Armed Forces Retirement Home the part-time or intermittent services of a resident of the Retirement Home, to pay the resident for such services, and to fix the rate of such pay.
• (b) A resident receiving pay for services authorized under subsection (a) shall not, by reason of performing such services and receiving pay for such services, be considered as—
  • (1) receiving the pay of a position or being employed in a position for the purposes of section 5532 1 1 See References in Text note below. of title 5; or
  • (2) being an employee of the United States for any purpose other than—
    • (A) subchapter I of chapter 81 of title 5 (relating to compensation for work-related injuries); and
    • (B) chapter 171 of title 28 (relating to claims for damages or loss).
• (c) In subsection (b)(1), the term “position” has the meaning given that term in section 5531 of title 5 .