31 USC Chapter 15 - APPROPRIATION ACCOUNTING | Title 31 - Money and Finance | U.S. Code

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SUBCHAPTER I—GENERAL Sec. 1501. Documentary evidence requirement for Government obligations. 1502. Balances available. 1503. Comptroller General reports of amounts for which no accounting is made. SUBCHAPTER II—APPORTIONMENT 1511. Definition and application. 1512. Apportionment and reserves. 1513. Officials controlling apportionments. 1514. Administrative division of apportionments. 1515. Authorized apportionments necessitating deficiency or supplemental appropriations. 1516. Exemptions. 1517. Prohibited obligations and expenditures. 1518. Adverse personnel actions. 1519. Criminal penalty. SUBCHAPTER III—TRANSFERS AND REIMBURSEMENTS 1531. Transfers of functions and activities. 1532. Withdrawal and credit. 1533. Transfers of appropriations for salaries and expenses to carry out national defense responsibilities. 1534. Adjustments between appropriations. 1535. Agency agreements. 1536. Crediting payments from purchases between executive agencies. 1537. Services between the United States Government and the District of Columbia government. SUBCHAPTER IV—CLOSING ACCOUNTS 1551. Definitions; applicability of subchapter. 1552. Procedure for appropriation accounts available for definite periods. 1553. Availability of appropriation accounts to pay obligations. 1554. Audit, control, and reporting. 1555. Closing of appropriation accounts available for indefinite periods. 1556. Comptroller General: reports on appropriation accounts. 1557. Authority for exemptions in appropriation laws. 1558. Availability of funds following resolution of a formal protest or other challenge.

Amendments

1996—Pub. L. 104–106, div. E, title LV, § 5502(c),Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 699, substituted “of a formal protest or other challenge” for “of a protest” in item 1558.

1992—Pub. L. 102–484, div. A, title X, § 1054(e)(1),Oct. 23, 1992, 106 Stat. 2503, substituted “Definitions; applicability of subchapter” for “Definitions and application” in item 1551 and “Procedure for appropriation accounts available for definite periods” for “Audit, control, and reporting” in item 1552.

1990—Pub. L. 101–510, div. A, title XIV, § 1405(a)(2),Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1679, substituted “Audit, control, and reporting” for “Procedure for appropriation accounts available for definite periods” in item 1552 and for “Review of appropriation accounts” in item 1554, “Closing of appropriation accounts available” for “Withdrawal of unobligated balances of appropriations” in item 1555, “General: reports” for “General reports” in item 1556, and “Authority for exemptions in appropriation laws” for “Authorization to exempt” in item 1557.

1989—Pub. L. 101–189, div. A, title VIII, § 813(b),Nov. 29, 1989, 103 Stat. 1494, added item 1558.

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