456 Additional grades. Heavily patronized routes. Additional compen- sation. Equipment main- tenance. Payments. PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 274-JULY 6, 1945 [59 STAT. and carriers shall be promoted successively at the beginning of the quarter following one year's satisfactory service in each grade to the next higher grade until they reach the eleventh grade: Provided, That there shall be three additional grades of carriers in the Rural Delivery Service, with rates of pay per mile per annum and fixed compensation per annum, as follows: Rates per mile Fixed compensation Grade 12, $76---------------------- -
$264 Grade 13, $78------------------------------------------ 288 Grade 14, $80----------------------------------------- 312 and carriers who perform faithful and meritorious service shall be promoted to grade 12 after three years of such service in grade 11, and shall be promoted to grade 13 after five years of such service in grade 12, and shall be promoted to grade 14 after seven years of such service in grade 13. (b) A rural carrier assigned to a route over thirty miles in length served six days a week shall be promoted and shall be paid for the first thirty miles at the rates per mile per annum and the fixed com- pensation per annum, as herein provided for routes thirty miles or less in length, and shall be paid $20 per mile per annum for each mile or major fraction thereof said route is in excess of thirty miles, based on actual mileage. (c) A rural carrier serving one triweekly route shall be paid a salary on the basis of a route one-half the length of the route served by him. A rural carrier serving two triweeklv routes shall be paid a salary on the basis of a route one-half the combined length of the two routes. (d) The Postmaster General may, in his discretion, allow and pay such additional compensation as he may determine to be fair and reasonable in each individual case to rural carriers serving heavily patronized routes not exceeding forty-five miles in length: Provided, That the total annual compensation of a rural carrier serving a heavily patronized route of not exceeding forty-five miles in length shall not exceed $3,000, exclusive of maintenance allowance: Provided further, That a rural carrier below the maximum grade provided herein shall not be granted an additional allowance for serving a heavily patron- ized route in an amount that would exceed $3,000 when added to the salary he would receive in the maximum grade. (e) In addition to the salaries provided in this section, each carrier in the Rural Delivery Service shall be paid for equipment maintenance a sum equal to 6 cents per mile per day for each mile or major frac- tion of a mile scheduled. Payments for equipment and maintenance as provided herein shall be at the same periods and in the same man- ner as payments for regular compensation to rural carriers. (f) A substitute rural carrier who performs service for a regular carrier absent with pay shall be paid at the same rate paid the regu- lar carrier for each day's service, exclusive of Sundays and author- ized holidays. A temporary rural carrier serving a route in place of a regular carrier absent without pay shall be paid at the same rate paid the regular carrier, Sundays and holidays included except at the beginning or end of the period of employment. A temporary rural carrier serving a route for which there is no regular carrier shall be paid at the rate of salary provided for a carrier of grade 1 for the route on which service is performed, including Sundays and authorized holidays except at the beginning and end of the period of employment. (g) In the readjustment of the salaries of carriers in the Rural Delivery Service to conform to the provisions of this Act, rural car-
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