US State Code:United States CodeTITLE 31 - MONEY AND FINANCE


In this title, ''agency'' means a department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States Government. ...


In this title, ''executive agency'' means a department, agency, or instrumentality in the executive branch of the United States Government. ...


In this title, ''United States'', when used in a geographic sense, means the States of the United States and the District of Columbia. ...


(a) The Department of the Treasury is an executive department of the United States Government at the seat of the Government. (b) The head of the Department is the Secretary of...


The United States Government has a Treasury of the United States. The Treasury is in the Department of the Treasury. ...


(a) The Bureau of Engraving and Printing is a bureau in the Department of the Treasury. (b) The head of the Bureau is the Director of the Bureau of Engraving and...


(a) The United States Mint is a bureau in the Department of the Treasury. (b)(1) The head of the Mint is the Director of the Mint. The Director is appointed by the President,...


The Federal Financing Bank, established under section 4 of the Federal Financing Bank Act of 1973 (12 U.S.C. 2283), is subject to the direction and supervision of the Secretary of...


(a) The Fiscal Service is a service in the Department of the Treasury. (b) The head of the Fiscal Service is the Fiscal Assistant Secretary appointed under section 301(d)...


The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, established under section 324 of the Revised Statutes (12 U.S.C. 1), is an office in the Department of the Treasury. ...


The United States Customs Service, established under section 1 of the Act of March 3, 1927 (19 U.S.C. 2071), is a service in the Department of the Treasury. ...


The Office of Thrift Supervision established under section 3(a) of the Home Owners' Loan Act shall be an office in the Department of the Treasury. ...


When the term of office of an officer of the Department of the Treasury ends, the officer may continue to serve until a successor is appointed and qualified. ...


(a) The Secretary of the Treasury shall - (1) prepare plans for improving and managing receipts of the United States Government and managing the public debt; (2)...


(a) The Department of the Treasury has a working capital fund. Amounts in the fund are available for expenses of operating and maintaining common administrative services of...


(a) To manage United States cash, the Secretary of the Treasury may invest any part of the operating cash of the Treasury for not more than 90 days. Investments may be made...


(a) The Secretary of the Treasury may - (1) dispose of obligations - (A) acquired by the Secretary for the United States Government; or (B) delivered by...


(a) Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary may provide officers and employees of the Department of the Treasury carrying out...


(a) Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, an appropriation for the Department of the Treasury available to pay travel expenses also is available to...


(a) In this section, ''service'' includes service provided in - (1) disbursing and receiving amounts. (2) servicing bonds. (3) making accounts. (4)...


(a) If a chief disbursing official or a director of a disbursing center of the Department of the Treasury dies, resigns, or leaves office, the deputy chief disbursing official or...


(a)(1) The Secretary of the Treasury and the Treasurer may not - (A) be involved in trade or commerce; (B) own any part of a vessel (except a pleasure vessel); (C)...


(a) Subject to section 500 of title 5, the Secretary of the Treasury may - (1) regulate the practice of representatives of persons before the Department of the...


(a) The Secretary of the Treasury shall submit to Congress each year an annual report. The report shall include - (1) a statement of the public receipts and public expenditures ...


The Secretary of the Treasury may to the extent provided in advance by appropriation Acts - (1) contract for the temporary or intermittent services of experts or...


(a) General Rule. - No person may use, in connection with, or as a part of, any advertisement, solicitation, business activity, or product, whether alone or with other words,...


The Office of Management and Budget is an office in the Executive Office of the President. ...


(a) The head of the Office of Management and Budget is the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. The Director is appointed by the President, by and with the advice...


(a) Subject to the direction and approval of the Director, the Deputy Director for Management shall establish governmentwide financial management policies for executive agencies...


(a) There is established in the Office of Management and Budget an office to be known as the ''Office of Federal Financial Management''. The Office of Federal Financial...


The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, established under section 3503 of title 44, is an office in the Office of Management and Budget. ...


The Office of Federal Procurement Policy, established under section 5(a) of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act (41 U.S.C. 404(a)), is an office in the Office of...


The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall appoint and fix the pay of employees of the Office under regulations prescribed by the President. ...


The Director of the Office of Management and Budget may make necessary expenditures for the Office under regulations prescribed by the President. ...


In this chapter - (1) ''agency'' includes the District of Columbia government but does not include the legislative branch or the Supreme Court. (2)...


(a) The General Accounting Office is an instrumentality of the United States Government independent of the executive departments. (b) The head of the Office is the...


(a)(1) The Comptroller General and Deputy Comptroller General are appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. (2) When a vacancy occurs in...


(a) To the extent applicable, all laws generally related to administering an agency apply to the Comptroller General. (b) A copy of a record and a transcript from a record or ...


The Comptroller General may - (1) prescribe regulations to carry out the duties and powers of the Comptroller General; (2) delegate the duties and powers of...


The Comptroller General shall - (1) investigate all matters related to the receipt, disbursement, and use of public money; (2) estimate the cost to the United...


(a) Under regulations of the Comptroller General, the Comptroller General shall audit the Internal Revenue Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, of the...


(a) In this section, ''agency'' means the Financial Institutions Examination Council, the Federal Reserve Board, Federal reserve banks, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation,...


(a) In addition to the audit carried out under section 455 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act (Public Law 93-198, 87 Stat. 803; D.C. Code, Sec. 47-117), the Comptroller...


(a) Each agency shall give the Comptroller General information the Comptroller General requires about the duties, powers, activities, organization, and financial transactions of the ...


(a) In this section, ''agency'' means a department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States Government (except a mixed-ownership Government corporation) or the District...


(a) A draft report of an audit under section 714 of this title shall be submitted to the Financial Institutions Examination Council, the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal...


(a) At the beginning of each regular session of Congress, the Comptroller General shall report to Congress (and to the President when requested by the President) on the work of...


(a) In this section, ''agency'' means a department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States Government (except a mixed-ownership Government corporation) or the District...


(a) The Comptroller General may appoint, pay, assign, and remove officers (except the Deputy Comptroller General) and employees the Comptroller General decides are necessary to...


(a) The Comptroller General shall maintain a personnel management system. The Comptroller General may prescribe a regulation about the system only after notice and opportunity...


(a) The Comptroller General may establish senior-level positions to meet critical scientific, technical or professional needs of the General Accounting Office. An individual...


(a) The Comptroller General may establish a General Accounting Office Senior Executive Service - (1) meeting the requirements of section 3131 of title 5; (2)...


The Comptroller General may assign or detail an officer or employee of the General Accounting Office to full-time continuous duty with a committee of Congress for not more than...


(a) Except as provided in section 733(c) of this title, this subchapter and subchapter IV of this chapter do not affect sections 702(b), 703, 731(c)-(e), 772, 775(a) and (d) of...


Amounts necessary to carry out this subchapter and subchapter IV of this chapter may be appropriated to the Comptroller General. ...


(a) The General Accounting Office has a General Accounting Office Personnel Appeals Board. The Board is composed of 5 members appointed by the Comptroller General. An individual...


(a) The General Accounting Office Personnel Appeals Board shall select one of its members as Chairman. The Chairman is the chief executive and administrative officer of the Board. ...


(a) The General Accounting Office Personnel Appeals Board may consider and order corrective or disciplinary action in a case arising from - (1) an officer or employee...


When the Comptroller General has authority, the Comptroller General promptly shall carry out action the General Accounting Office Personnel Appeals Board orders under section 753...


(a) A final decision under section 753(a)(1)-(3), (6),, (FOOTNOTE 1) (7) or (9) of this title may be reviewed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit....


In this subchapter - (1) ''dependent child'' means an unmarried dependent child (including a stepchild or adopted child) who is - (A) under 18 years of age; ...


(a) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, a Comptroller General serving a complete term as Comptroller General or who retires under section 703(e)(1) of this title...


(a) To provide survivor benefits, a Comptroller General may elect in writing to reduce the pay and annuity of the Comptroller General. An election shall be made within 6 months...


(a) In this section - (1) ''allowable military service'' means honorable active service of not more than 5 years in an armed force (including service in the National...


(a) A Comptroller General separated from office before becoming entitled to receive an annuity under section 772 of this title is entitled to a lump-sum refund of the amount...


(a) An annuity under section 774 of this title accrues monthly and is paid monthly on the first business day of the month after the month in which an annuity accrues. (b)(1)...


(a) An annuity payable under this subchapter shall be increased at the same time that, and by the same percent as the percentage by which, annuities are increased under...


The General Counsel of the General Accounting Office shall decide a question of dependency, disability, or dependency and disability under sections 773-776 of this title. A...


Annuities and refunds under this subchapter shall be paid by the Comptroller General from appropriations of the General Accounting Office. ...


(a) The Comptroller General shall have exclusive custody and control over the building located at 441 G Street, N.W., in the District of Columbia, that is generally known as...


The Comptroller General is authorized to lease or otherwise provide space and services within the General Accounting Office Building to persons, both public and private, or to...


(a) The Comptroller General is authorized to make all needful rules and regulations for the Government of the General Accounting Office Building, and to annex to such rules...


(a) There shall be within each agency described in subsection (b) an agency Chief Financial Officer. Each agency Chief Financial Officer shall - (1) for those...


(a) An agency Chief Financial Officer shall - (1) report directly to the head of the agency regarding financial management matters; (2) oversee all financial...


(a) There shall be within each agency described in section 901(b) an agency Deputy Chief Financial Officer, who shall report directly to the agency Chief Financial Officer...


In this chapter - (1) ''agency'' includes the District of Columbia government but does not include the legislative branch or the Supreme Court. (2)...


The fiscal year of the Treasury begins on October 1 of each year and ends on September 30 of the following year. Accounts of receipts and expenditures required under law to...


Congress reaffirms its commitment that budget outlays of the United States Government for a fiscal year may be not more than the receipts of the Government for that year. ...


(a) The President shall prepare budgets of the United States Government under section 1105 of this title and proposed deficiency and supplemental appropriations under section 1107...


(a) On or after the first Monday in January but not later than the first Monday in February of each year, the President shall submit a budget of the United States Government for...


(a) Before July 16 of each year, the President shall submit to Congress a supplemental summary of the budget for the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted under...


The President may submit to Congress proposed deficiency and supplemental appropriations the President decides are necessary because of laws enacted after the submission of the...


(a) In this section (except subsections (b)(1) and (e)), ''agency'' means a department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States Government. (b)(1) The head of...


(a) On or before the first Monday after January 3 of each year (on or before February 5 in 1986), the President shall submit to both Houses of Congress the estimated budget...


A request to enact legislation authorizing new budget authority to continue a program or activity for a fiscal year shall be submitted to Congress before May 16 of the year before...


To improve economy and efficiency in the United States Government, the President shall - (1) make a study of each agency to decide, and may send Congress recommendations,...


(a) In this section, ''agency'' means a department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States Government except a mixed-ownership Government corporation. (b)...


(a)(1) When requested by a committee of Congress having jurisdiction over receipts or appropriations, the President shall provide the committee with assistance and information. ...


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(a) In carrying out the provisions of section 1105(a)(29), (FOOTNOTE 1) the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall require each agency to prepare an annual...


(a) Not later than 150 days after the end of an agency's fiscal year, the head of each agency shall prepare and submit to the President and the Congress, a report on...


The Director of the Office of Management and Budget may exempt from the requirements of sections 1115 and 1116 of this title and section 306 of title 5, any agency with annual...


(a) The Director of the Office of Management and Budget, after consultation with the head of each agency, shall designate not less than ten agencies as pilot projects in...


(a) The Director of the Office of Management and Budget, after consultation with the head of each agency shall designate not less than five agencies as pilot projects in...


(a) Appropriations shall be applied only to the objects for which the appropriations were made except as otherwise provided by law. (b) The reappropriation and diversion of...


Except as specifically provided by law, the total amount appropriated in an appropriation law is determined by adding up the specific amounts or rates appropriated in each...


Expenditures for a particular object or purpose authorized by a law (and referred to in that law by the specific title previously used for the appropriation item in the...


(a) Necessary amounts are appropriated to pay final judgments, awards, compromise settlements, and interest and costs specified in the judgments or otherwise authorized by law when...


Necessary amounts are appropriated for the following: (1) to pay the proceeds of the personal estate of a United States citizen dying abroad to the legal representative of the ...


(a) In General. - Foreign credits (including currencies) owed to or owned by the United States may be used by any agency for any purpose for which appropriations are made for...


Amounts appropriated to construct public buildings remain available until completion of the work. When a building is completed and outstanding liabilities for the construction are ...


Charges for telephone and metered services (such as gas, electricity, water, and steam) for a time period beginning in one fiscal year or allotment period and ending in another...


Amounts made available for the compensation of officers and employees of the United States Government may be used to pay taxes imposed on an agency as an employer under chapter 21...


(a) The Secretary of the Treasury shall credit an appropriation for a private organization to the appropriate fiscal official of the organization. The credit shall be carried on...


(a) The following are classified as trust funds: (1) Philippine special fund (customs duties). (2) Philippine special fund (internal revenue). (3)...


(a) On September 30 of each year, the Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer to the Treasury trust fund receipt account ''Unclaimed Moneys of Individuals Whose Whereabouts...


(a) Amounts from the following sources held in checking accounts of disbursing officials shall be deposited in the Treasury to the appropriate trust fund receipt accounts: ...


(a) Necessary amounts are appropriated to the Secretary of the Treasury for refunding internal revenue collections as provided by law, including payment of - (1) claims...


(a)(1) An officer or employee of the United States Government or of the District of Columbia government may not - (A) make or authorize an expenditure or obligation exceeding an ...


An officer or employee of the United States Government or of the District of Columbia government may not accept voluntary services for either government or employ personal...


(a) In this section, buying a passenger motor vehicle or aircraft includes a transfer of the vehicle or aircraft between agencies. (b) An appropriation may be expended to buy...


(a)(1) Funds available to a Federal agency, by appropriation or otherwise, may be expended by the Federal agency for the maintenance, operation, or repair of any passenger...


Except as specifically provided by law, an appropriation may not be used for travel, transportation, and subsistence expenses for a meeting. This section does not prohibit - ...


(a) Except as provided in this section - (1) public money and appropriations are not available to pay - (A) the pay or expenses of a commission, council, board, or ...


(a) An agency in existence for more than one year may not use amounts otherwise available for obligation to pay its expenses without a specific appropriation or specific...


(a)(1) Except as provided in this section, appropriations are not available to install telephones in private residences or for tolls or other charges for telephone service...


(a) An officer or employee of the United States Government or of the District of Columbia government violating section 1341(a) or 1342 of this title shall be subject to...


An officer or employee of the United States Government or of the District of Columbia government knowingly and willfully violating section 1341(a) or 1342 of this title shall be...


If an officer or employee of an executive agency or an officer or employee of the District of Columbia government violates section 1341(a) or 1342 of this title, the head of...


(a)(1) None of the funds appropriated by any Act may be expended by the recipient of a Federal contract, grant, loan, or cooperative agreement to pay any person for influencing...


(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Administrator of General Services, in consultation with the Director of the Office of Government Ethics, shall prescribe...


(a)(1) Subject to paragraph (2), no agency may obligate or expend funds appropriated for the agency for a fiscal year to enter into a contract described in section 4212(a) of title...


(a) An amount shall be recorded as an obligation of the United States Government only when supported by documentary evidence of - (1) a binding agreement between an agency...


(a) The balance of an appropriation or fund limited for obligation to a definite period is available only for payment of expenses properly incurred during the period of...


The Comptroller General shall make a special report each year to Congress on recommendations for changes in laws, that the Comptroller General believes may be in the public...


(a) In this subchapter, ''appropriations'' means - (1) appropriated amounts; (2) funds; and (3) authority to make obligations by contract before ...


(a) Except as provided in this subchapter, an appropriation available for obligation for a definite period shall be apportioned to prevent obligation or expenditure at a rate...


(a) The official having administrative control of an appropriation available to the legislative branch, the judicial branch, the United States International Trade Commission, or the ...


(a) The official having administrative control of an appropriation available to the legislative branch, the judicial branch, the United States International Trade Commission, or the ...


(a) An appropriation required to be apportioned under section 1512 of this title may be apportioned on a basis that indicates the need for a deficiency or supplemental...


An official designated in section 1513 of this title to make apportionments may exempt from apportionment - (1) a trust fund or working fund if an expenditure from the ...


(a) An officer or employee of the United States Government or of the District of Columbia government may not make or authorize an expenditure or obligation exceeding - (1)...


An officer or employee of the United States Government or of the District of Columbia government violating section 1517(a) of this title shall be subject to appropriate...


An officer or employee of the United States Government or of the District of Columbia government knowingly and willfully violating section 1517(a) of this title shall be fined...


(a) The balance of an appropriation available and necessary to finance or discharge a function or activity transferred or assigned under law within an executive agency or from...


An amount available under law may be withdrawn from one appropriation account and credited to another or to a working fund only when authorized by law. Except as...


An appropriation of an executive agency for salaries and expenses is available to carry out national defense responsibilities assigned to the agency under law. A transfer...


(a) An appropriation available to an agency may be charged at any time during a fiscal year for the benefit of another appropriation available to the agency to pay costs - ...


(a) The head of an agency or major organizational unit within an agency may place an order with a major organizational unit within the same agency or another agency for goods...


(a) An advance payment made on an order under section 1535 of this title is credited to a special working fund that the Secretary of the Treasury considers necessary to...


(a) To prevent duplication and to promote efficiency and economy, an officer or employee of - (1) the United States Government may provide services to the District...


(a) In this subchapter - (1) An obligated balance of an appropriation account as of the end of a fiscal year is the amount of unliquidated obligations applicable to...


(a) On September 30th of the 5th fiscal year after the period of availability for obligation of a fixed appropriation account ends, the account shall be closed and any...


(a) After the end of the period of availability for obligation of a fixed appropriation account and before the closing of that account under section 1552(a) of this title, the...


(a) Any audit requirement, limitation on obligations, or reporting requirement that is applicable to an appropriation account shall remain applicable to that account after the end...


An appropriation account available for obligation for an indefinite period shall be closed, and any remaining balance (whether obligated or unobligated) in that account shall be ...


(a) In carrying out audit responsibilities, the Comptroller General shall report on operations under this subchapter to - (1) the head of the agency concerned; (2)...


A provision of an appropriation law may exempt an appropriation from the provisions of this subchapter and fix the period for which the appropriation remains available...


(a) Notwithstanding section 1552 of this title or any other provision of law, funds available to an agency for obligation for a contract at the time a protest or other action...


(a) In this section, the current redemption value of an obligation issued on a discount basis and redeemable before maturity at the option of its holder is deemed to be the face ...


(a) With the approval of the President, the Secretary of the Treasury may borrow on the credit of the United States Government amounts necessary for expenditures authorized by law...


(a) With the approval of the President, the Secretary of the Treasury may borrow on the credit of the United States Government amounts necessary for expenditures authorized by law...


(a) The Secretary of the Treasury may borrow on the credit of the United States Government amounts necessary for expenditures authorized by law and may buy, redeem, and make...


(a) With the approval of the President, the Secretary of the Treasury may issue savings bonds and savings certificates of the United States Government and may buy, redeem, and...


(a) With the approval of the President, the Secretary of the Treasury may issue retirement and savings bonds of the United States Government and may buy, redeem, and make...


With the approval of the President, the Secretary of the Treasury may increase by regulation the interest rate or investment yield on an offering of bonds issued under this...


An obligation issued under sections 3102-3104(a)(1) and 3105-3107 of this title may not bear the circulation privilege. ...


(a) The Secretary of the Treasury may issue tax and loss bonds of the United States Government and may buy, redeem, and make refunds under section 3111 of this title. The proceeds...


(a) With the approval of the President, the Secretary of the Treasury may sell obligations of the government of a foreign country when the obligations were acquired under - ...


An obligation may be issued under this chapter to buy, redeem, or refund, at or before maturity, outstanding bonds, notes, certificates of indebtedness, Treasury bills, or savings ...


(a) The Department of the Treasury has a sinking fund for retiring bonds and notes issued under this chapter. Amounts in the fund are appropriated for payment of bonds and notes...


(a) To provide the people of the United States with an opportunity to make gifts to the United States Government to be used to reduce the public debt - (1) the Secretary...


(a) In issuing obligations under sections 3102-3104 of this title, the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe - (1) whether an obligation is to be issued on an ...


(a) The Secretary of the Treasury may designate incorporated banks and trust companies as depositaries for any part of proceeds of an obligation issued under this chapter....


(a) The faith of the United States Government is pledged to pay, in legal tender, principal and interest on the obligations of the Government issued under this chapter. (b)...


(a) Stocks and obligations of the United States Government are exempt from taxation by a State or political subdivision of a State. The exemption applies to each form of taxation...


(a) In this section, ''obligation'' means a direct obligation of the United States Government issued under law for valuable consideration, including bonds, notes, certificates of ...


(a) Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, a loss resulting from a payment related to redeeming a savings bond or savings note shall be replaced out of...


When an officer, employee, or agent of the United States Government authorized to receive, redeem, or cancel Treasury notes receives or pays a note that was stolen and put...


A finding of death made by an officer or employee of the United States Government authorized by law to make the finding is sufficient proof of death to allow credit in the accounts...


(a) Amounts to pay necessary expenses (including rent) for an issue of obligations authorized under this chapter are appropriated to the Secretary of the Treasury. However, the...


(a) General Rule. - On or before June 1 of each calendar year after 1993, the Secretary of the Treasury shall submit a report to the Committee on Ways and Means of the House...


(a) The Secretary of the Treasury shall - (1) receive and keep public money; (2) take receipts for money paid out by the Secretary; (3) give receipts for...


(a) Except as provided by another law, an official or agent of the United States Government having custody or possession of public money shall keep the money safe without - ...


(a) The Secretary of the Treasury designates depositaries of money as provided in this section and under other law. (b) When necessary to carry out the business of the...


The Secretary of the Treasury may transfer public money in the possession of a depositary - (1) to the Treasury; and (2) if the Secretary believes the safety of the...


The Secretary of the Treasury, or an officer, employee, or agent designated by the Secretary, may audit a depositary of public money. For uniformity and accuracy in accounts...


(a) Except as provided in this section or another law, only officers and employees of the Department of the Treasury designated by the Secretary of the Treasury as...


(a) The Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer public money to a disbursing official only by draft or warrant written on the Treasury. Except as provided in section 3716 and...


(a) Except as provided in section 3326 of this title, the Secretary of the Treasury may pay out money only against a warrant. A warrant shall be - (1) authorized by law; ...


(a) Except as provided in this section, a payment under a contract to provide a service or deliver an article for the United States Government may not be more than the value of...


(a) A disbursing official in the executive branch of the United States Government shall - (1) disburse money only as provided by a voucher certified by - (A) the head...


(a) When the Secretary of the Treasury and the Comptroller General decide that, with sufficient safeguards, existing procedures may be changed to simplify, improve, and economize...


(a) The Secretary of the Treasury may issue a check or other draft on public money in the Treasury to pay an obligation of the United States Government. When the Secretary decides...


(a) Time Limit on Treasury Checks. - (1) In general. - Except as provided in sections 3329 and 3330 of this title - (A) the Secretary shall not be required to pay...


(a) The Secretary of the Treasury shall prohibit a check or warrant drawn on public money from being sent to a foreign country from the United States or from a territory or...


(a)(1) A check is deemed to be issued for sending to a foreign country and subject to this section and section 3329 of this title if the check is - (A) drawn on public...


(a) In this section, ''original check'' - (1) means an order for the payment of money - (A) payable on demand; (B) that does not bear interest; (C)...


(a)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all Federal wage, salary, and retirement payments shall be paid to recipients of such payments by electronic funds transfer,...


(a)(1) The Secretary of the Treasury is not liable for a payment made by the Secretary or depositary in due course and without negligence, of a - (A) check, draft, or...


(a) In General. - (1) The Secretary shall provide monthly to each agency that authorizes the issuance of Treasury checks a list of those checks issued for such agency on or after...


(a) Each head of an executive agency (other than the Tennessee Valley Authority) shall, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe, provide for the...


(a) The Congress finds that: (1) Electronic benefit transfer (EBT) is a safe, reliable, and economical way to provide benefit payments to individuals who do not have...


(a) A disbursing official of the United States Government may sell a Government warrant, check, draft, or obligation not the property of the official at a premium, or dispose of...


(a) A disbursing official of the United States Government may - (1) cash and negotiate negotiable instruments payable in United States currency or currency of a...


(a) The Department of the Treasury has a special deposit revolving fund, the ''Check Forgery Insurance Fund''. Necessary amounts are hereafter appropriated to the Fund out of...


In this chapter, ''executive agency'' does not include (except in section 3513 of this title) a corporation, agency, or instrumentality subject to chapter 91 of this title. ...


(a) The Comptroller General shall prescribe the accounting principles, standards, and requirements that the head of each executive agency shall observe. Before prescribing...


(a)(1) The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall prepare and submit to the appropriate committees of the Congress a financial management status report and...


(a) The Secretary of the Treasury shall prepare reports that will inform the President, Congress, and the public on the financial operations of the United States Government....


The Comptroller General may discontinue an agency appropriation, expenditure, limitation, receipt, or personal ledger account maintained by the Comptroller General when...


(a) Not later than March 1 of 1997 and each year thereafter, the head of each executive agency identified in section 901(b) of this title shall prepare and submit to the Congress...


(a)(1) With the concurrence of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the head of an executive agency may adjust the frequency and due dates of, and consolidate into...


(a) Each account of an agency shall be audited administratively before being submitted to the Comptroller General. The head of each agency shall prescribe regulations for...


(a)(1) Unless the Comptroller General decides the public interest requires that an account be made more frequently, each disbursing official shall make a quarterly account....