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31 U.S.C. § 1346 — Commissions, councils, boards, and interagency and similar groups
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**(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 similar group, or a member of that group;
(B) expenses related to the work or the results of work or action of that group; or
(C) for the detail or cost of personal services of an officer or employee from an executive agency in connection with that group; and
(2) an accounting or disbursing official, absent a special appropriation to pay the account or charge, may not allow or pay an account or charge related to that group.
**(b)** Appropriations of an executive agency are available for the expenses of an interagency group conducting activities of interest common to executive agencies when the group includes a representative of the agency. The representatives receive no additional pay because of membership in the group. An officer or employee of an executive agency not a representative of the group may not receive additional pay for providing services for the group.
**(c)** Subject to [section 1347 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section1347&num=0&edition=prelim), this section does not apply to—
(1) commissions, councils, boards, or similar groups authorized by law;
(2) courts-martial or courts of inquiry of the armed forces; or
(3) the contingent fund related to foreign relations at the disposal of the President.
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**(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 similar group, or a member of that group;
(B) expenses related to the work or the results of work or action of that group; or
(C) for the detail or cost of personal services of an officer or employee from an executive agency in connection with that group; and
(2) an accounting or disbursing official, absent a special appropriation to pay the account or charge, may not allow or pay an account or charge related to that group.
**(b)** Appropriations of an executive agency are available for the expenses of an interagency group conducting activities of interest common to executive agencies when the group includes a representative of the agency. The representatives receive no additional pay because of membership in the group. An officer or employee of an executive agency not a representative of the group may not receive additional pay for providing services for the group.
**(c)** Subject to [section 1347 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section1347&num=0&edition=prelim), this section does not apply to—
(1) commissions, councils, boards, or similar groups authorized by law;
(2) courts-martial or courts of inquiry of the armed forces; or
(3) the contingent fund related to foreign relations at the disposal of the President.
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**(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 authorization by law. If the principal duties and powers of the agency are substantially the same as or similar to the duties and powers of an agency established by executive order, the agency established later is deemed to have been in existence from the date the agency established by the order came into existence.
**(b)** Except as specifically authorized by law, another agency may not use amounts available for obligation to pay expenses to carry out duties and powers substantially the same as or similar to the principal duties and powers of an agency that is prohibited from using amounts under this section.
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For the purposes of this subchapter—
**(a)** The term “person” shall include an individual, partnership, corporation, or the Government of the United States.
**(b)** The term “United States” when used in a geographical sense shall include the United States, its Territories and insular possessions, and the Canal Zone.
**(c)** The term “nationals of the United States” includes (1) persons who are citizens of the United States, and (2) persons who, though not citizens of the United States, owe permanent allegiance to the United States. It does not include aliens.
**(d)** The term “Yugoslav Claims Agreement of 1948” means the agreement between the Governments of the United States of America and of the Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia regarding pecuniary claims of the United States and its nationals, signed July 19, 1948.
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**(a) Administrative and other expenses** Funds made available for the purposes of this chapter may be used for compensation, allowances and travel of employees, including members of the Foreign Service whose services are utilized primarily for the purposes of this chapter, for printing and binding without regard to the provisions of any other law, and for expenditures outside the United States for the procurement of supplies and services and for other administrative and operating purposes (other than compensation of employees) without regard to such laws and regulations governing the obligation and expenditure of Government funds as may be necessary to accomplish the purposes of this chapter.
**(b) Travel expenses abroad; transportation of personal effects, household goods and automobiles; storage** Funds made available for the purposes of this chapter may be used to pay expenses in connection with travel abroad of employees and, to the extent otherwise authorized by this chapter, of volunteers, including travel expenses of dependents (including expenses during necessary stopovers while engaged in such travel), and transportation of personal effects, household goods, and automobiles when any part of such travel or transportation begins in one fiscal year pursuant to travel orders issued in that fiscal year, notwithstanding the fact that such travel or transportation may not be completed during the same fiscal year, and cost of transporting to and from a place of storage, and the cost of storing automobiles of employees when it is in the public interest or more economical to authorize storage.
**(c) Costs of training personnel employed or assigned overseas** Funds available under this chapter may be used to pay costs of training employees employed or assigned pursuant
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TITLE 31—MONEY AND FINANCE
§ 1345
§ 219(a), Aug. 20, 1996, 110 Stat. 1747, provided that: ‘‘The
Committee on House Oversight [now Committee on
House Administration] of the House of Representatives
shall take such action as may be necessary to carry out
section 503 [set out above] with respect to vehicles of
the House of Representatives.’’
§ 1345. Expenses of meetings
Except as specifically provided by law, an ap-
propriation may not be used for travel, transpor-
tation, and subsistence expenses for a meeting.
This section does not prohibit—
(1) an agency from paying the expenses of an
officer or employee of the United States Gov-
ernment carrying out an official duty; and
(2) the Secretary of Agriculture from paying
necessary expenses for a meeting called by the
Secretary for 4–H Boys and Girls Clubs as part
of the cooperative extension work of the De-
partment of Agriculture.
(Pub. L. 97–258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 925.)
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
Revised
Section
Source (U.S. Code)
Source (Statutes at Large)
1345 .........
31:551.
Feb. 2, 1935, ch. 4, 49 Stat. 19.
31:552.
June 17, 1935, ch. 271, 49 Stat.
387.
In the section, before clause (1), the word ‘‘appropria-
tion’’ is substituted for ‘‘no moneys from funds appro-
priated for any purpose’’ in 31:551 for consistency in the
revised title. The words ‘‘travel, transportation, and
subsistence expenses for a meeting’’ are substituted for
‘‘the purpose of lodging, feeding, conveying, or fur-
nishing transportation to, any conventions or other
form of assemblage or gathering’’ to eliminate unneces-
sary words. The words ‘‘to be held in the District of Co-
lumbia or elsewhere’’ are omitted as unnecessary.
In clause (1), the words ‘‘agency from paying’’ are
substituted for ‘‘the p
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