travel expenses of employees

travel expenses of employees Sec. 1413. (a) The Administrator may pay the expenses, except membership fees, of employees described in section 1403 and paragraph (1) of section 1404 detailed by the Chief Medical Director to attend meetings of associations for the promotion of medical and related science. (b) (1) The Administrator may place in schools of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Public Health Service, and in civil institutions 71 Stat. 135of learning, with the consent of the authorities concerned, full-time professional, technical, and medical administrative employees of outstanding ability employed in the Department of Medicine and Surgery, other than temporary employees appointed under section 1414 (a), on duty for a period not to exceed two hundred and eighty days in a year, for the purpose of increasing their professional knowledge or technical training in fields of medical education, research, and related sciences and occupations, or their proficiency in medical administrative techniques and which will materially contribute to the medical care and treatment of veterans and the more effective functioning of the Department of Medicine and Surgery; however, the number of any one class of employees placed upon such duty at any one time shall not exceed 5 per centum of full-time personnel of such class employed in the Department, and no full-time employee with less than two years of experience in the service of the Veterans’ Administration shall be placed upon such duty for a full academic year or the equivalent thereof. (2) The Administrator is authorized, subject to available appropriations, to pay for tuition, transportation, and educational fees of personnel placed on duty under the provisions of paragraph (1) of this subsection. (c) Any person authorized to attend a course of training shall be required to reimburse the Veterans’ Administration the expenses thereof if he voluntarily leaves the service within two years after completion of such course.