Browse Arkansas Code titles and sections
5 U.S.C. § 5704 — Mileage and related allowances
Federal law — U.S. Code and appendices · legal_authorities
**(a)**
(1) Under regulations prescribed under [section 5707 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5707&num=0&edition=prelim), an employee who is engaged on official business for the Government is entitled to a rate per mile established by the Administrator of General Services, instead of the actual expenses of transportation, for the use of a privately owned automobile when that mode of transportation is authorized or approved as more advantageous to the Government. In any year in which the Internal Revenue Service establishes a single standard mileage rate for optional use by taxpayers in computing the deductible costs of operating their automobiles for business purposes, the rate per mile shall be the single standard mileage rate established by the Internal Revenue Service.
(2) Under regulations prescribed under [section 5707 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5707&num=0&edition=prelim), an employee who is engaged on official business for the Government is entitled to a rate per mile established by the Administrator of General Services, instead of the actual expenses of transportation, for the use of a privately owned airplane or a privately owned motorcycle when that mode of transportation is authorized or approved as more advantageous to the Government.
**(b)** A determination that travel by a privately owned vehicle is more advantageous to the Government is not required under subsection (a) of this section when payment on a mileage basis is limited to the cost of travel by common carrier including per diem.
**(c)** Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (a) and (b) of this section, in any case in which an employee who is engaged on official busines
Source: Supplied U.S. Code snapshot — release unconfirmed · 5 U.S.C. § 5704
Stored review status: release_metadata_unconfirmed. A text match is a research starting point; applicability is not established.
Original supplied file — preserved unchanged
Download original Markdown file
File SHA-256: 2047a85503962c63e865aec9b2467e00ca4f41131387bf8632f6d14b1930c7b6. The original may include catalog metadata, neighboring provisions, or embedded records outside this collection's scope. Search shows only the selected federal record. Historical editions and unverified snapshots are not a statement of current law.
Authority boundary: historical or unconfirmed source not current law verified.
Open the recorded source website ↗
Record provenance
Stable record: federal_law:legal_authorities:record_usc_32ab486c84b9f9f8285cf948
Source file: Laws/federal/codes/united-states-code/title-5/section-5704-mileage-and-related-allowances--57838d253f.md
Pages: Not recorded – Not recorded
Passage SHA-256: 294f2af129621fd261d6deb920d95dfb3d5220c9104ffcbc6f3162838e98e20a
Source location: Title 5, Chapter 57, § 5704; chapter-057-travel-transportation-and-subsistence.md
Stored source content
**(a)**
(1) Under regulations prescribed under [section 5707 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5707&num=0&edition=prelim), an employee who is engaged on official business for the Government is entitled to a rate per mile established by the Administrator of General Services, instead of the actual expenses of transportation, for the use of a privately owned automobile when that mode of transportation is authorized or approved as more advantageous to the Government. In any year in which the Internal Revenue Service establishes a single standard mileage rate for optional use by taxpayers in computing the deductible costs of operating their automobiles for business purposes, the rate per mile shall be the single standard mileage rate established by the Internal Revenue Service.
(2) Under regulations prescribed under [section 5707 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5707&num=0&edition=prelim), an employee who is engaged on official business for the Government is entitled to a rate per mile established by the Administrator of General Services, instead of the actual expenses of transportation, for the use of a privately owned airplane or a privately owned motorcycle when that mode of transportation is authorized or approved as more advantageous to the Government.
**(b)** A determination that travel by a privately owned vehicle is more advantageous to the Government is not required under subsection (a) of this section when payment on a mileage basis is limited to the cost of travel by common carrier including per diem.
**(c)** Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (a) and (b) of this section, in any case in which an employee who is engaged on official business for the Government chooses to use a privately owned vehicle in lieu of a Government vehicle, payment on a mileage basis is limited to the cost of travel by a Government vehicle.
**(d)** In addition to the rate per mile authorized under subsection (a) of this section, the employee may be reimbursed for—
(1) parking fees;
(2) ferry fees;
(3) bridge, road, and tunnel costs; and
(4) airplane landing and tie-down fees.
Cross-references
Connections may be documented source relationships, shared citations or nearby passages. Each explains its basis; a connection alone does not establish applicability to your situation.
Federal law — U.S. Code and appendices · legal_authorities
**(a)**
(1) The Administrator of General Services shall prescribe regulations necessary for the administration of this subchapter, except that the Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts shall prescribe such regulations with respect to official travel by employees of the judicial branch of the Government.
(2) Regulations promulgated to implement section 5702 or 5706a of this title shall be transmitted to the appropriate committees of the Congress and shall not take effect until 30 days after such transmittal.
**(b)** The Administrator of General Services shall prescribe the mileage reimbursement rates for use on official business of privately owned airplanes, privately owned automobiles, and privately owned motorcycles while engaged on official business as provided for in [section 5704 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5704&num=0&edition=prelim) as follows:
(1)
(A) The Administrator of General Services shall conduct periodic investigations of the cost of travel and the operation of privately owned airplanes and privately owned motorcycles by employees while engaged on official business, and shall report the results of such investigations to Congress at least once a year.
(B) In conducting the periodic investigations, the Administrator shall review and analyze among other factors—
(i) depreciation of original vehicle cost;
(ii) gasoline and oil (excluding taxes);
(iii) maintenance, accessories, parts, and tires;
(iv) insurance; and
(v) State and Federal taxes.
(2)
(A) The Administrator shall issue regulations under this section which—
(i) shall provide that the mileage reimbursement rate for privately owned automobiles, as provided in section 5704
Source: Supplied U.S. Code snapshot — release unconfirmed · 5 U.S.C. § 5707
Stored review status: release_metadata_unconfirmed. Explicit cross-reference supplied in source Markdown; currentness and applicability require review.
Federal law — U.S. Code and appendices · legal_authorities
**(a)** The Secretary may utilize the services of nontemporary employees of the Bureau (by assignment, promotion, appointment, detail, or otherwise) in temporary positions established for any census, for not to exceed the period during which appropriations are available for that census. Whenever the Secretary determines that the services of an employee which have been utilized under this section are no longer required in such a temporary position, he may, without regard to the provisions of any other law, return the employee to a continuing position, with rank and compensation not less than that which he held in his last permanent position in the Bureau: Provided, That no employee shall, by reason of his service in a temporary position under this subsection, lose the protection of any law or regulation with respect to his separation, suspension, furlough, or reduction in rank or compensation below the level held in his last permanent position in the Bureau. Service by a nontemporary employee in a temporary position under this subsection shall be creditable for step-increases (both periodic and longevity) under title VII of the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, as though it were a continuation of service in his last permanent position.
**(b)** As used in this title with respect to appointments or positions, “temporary” shall be construed to mean not in excess of one year, or not in excess of the specific period during which appropriations are available for the conduct of a particular census, whichever is longer. No employee of the Bureau who holds only a temporary appointment within the meaning of this section shall be considered as other than strictly temporary for purposes of any other provision of law relating to separations, suspensions, or reductions in rank
Source: Supplied U.S. Code snapshot — release unconfirmed · 13 U.S.C. § 24
Stored review status: release_metadata_unconfirmed. Incoming connection: Explicit cross-reference supplied in source Markdown; currentness and applicability require review.
Federal law — U.S. Code and appendices · legal_authorities
The Secretary may contract with field employees for the rental and use within the continental limits of the United States of means of transportation, other than motorcycle, automobile, or airplane, and for the rental and use outside of the continental United States of any means of transportation, which means may be owned by the field employee. Such rental contracts shall be made without regard to section 4 of the Travel Expense Act of 1949, as amended ([5 U.S.C. 837](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section837&num=0&edition=prelim)). The rentals shall be at rates equivalent to the prevailing rental rates of the locality. The rental contracts within the continental United States may be entered into only when the use by the field employee of such other means of transportation is safer, more economical, or more advantageous to the Government than use of his motorcycle, automobile, or airplane in conducting the census.
Source: Supplied U.S. Code snapshot — release unconfirmed · 13 U.S.C. § 26
Stored review status: release_metadata_unconfirmed. Incoming connection: Explicit cross-reference supplied in source Markdown; currentness and applicability require review.
Federal law — U.S. Code and appendices · legal_authorities
**(a)**
(1) Except as otherwise provided by law, a witness in attendance at any court of the United States, or before a United States Magistrate Judge, or before any person authorized to take his deposition pursuant to any rule or order of a court of the United States, shall be paid the fees and allowances provided by this section.
(2) As used in this section, the term “court of the United States” includes, in addition to the courts listed in [section 451 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title28-section451&num=0&edition=prelim), any court created by Act of Congress in a territory which is invested with any jurisdiction of a district court of the United States.
**(b)** A witness shall be paid an attendance fee of $40 per day for each day’s attendance. A witness shall also be paid the attendance fee for the time necessarily occupied in going to and returning from the place of attendance at the beginning and end of such attendance or at any time during such attendance.
**(c)**
(1) A witness who travels by common carrier shall be paid for the actual expenses of travel on the basis of the means of transportation reasonably utilized and the distance necessarily traveled to and from such witness’s residence by the shortest practical route in going to and returning from the place of attendance. Such a witness shall utilize a common carrier at the most economical rate reasonably available. A receipt or other evidence of actual cost shall be furnished.
(2) A travel allowance equal to the mileage allowance which the Administrator of General Services has prescribed, pursuant to [section 5704 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5704&num=0&edition=prelim), for official travel of employ
Source: Supplied U.S. Code snapshot — release unconfirmed · 28 U.S.C. § 1821
Stored review status: release_metadata_unconfirmed. Incoming connection: Explicit cross-reference supplied in source Markdown; currentness and applicability require review.
Federal law — U.S. Code and appendices · legal_authorities
**(a)** Under regulations prescribed under [section 5738 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5738&num=0&edition=prelim) and when the head of the agency concerned or his designee authorizes or approves, the agency shall pay from Government funds—
(1) the travel expenses of an employee transferred in the interest of the Government from one official station or agency to another for permanent duty, and the transportation expenses of his immediate family, or a commutation thereof under [section 5704 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5704&num=0&edition=prelim);
(2) the expenses of transporting, packing, crating, temporarily storing, draying, and unpacking his household goods and personal effects not in excess of 18,000 pounds net weight; and
(3) upon the separation (or death in service) of a career appointee, as defined in [section 3132(a)(4) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section3132/a/4&num=0&edition=prelim), the travel expenses of that individual (if applicable), the transportation expenses of the immediate family of such individual, and the expenses of moving (including transporting, packing, crating, temporarily storing, draying, and unpacking) the household goods of such individual and personal effects not in excess of eighteen thousand pounds net weight, to the place where the individual will reside (or, in the case of a career appointee who dies in service or who dies after separating but before the travel, transportation, and moving is completed, to the place where the family will reside) within the United States, if such individual—
(A) during or after the five years preceding eligibility to receive a
Source: Supplied U.S. Code snapshot — release unconfirmed · 5 U.S.C. § 5724
Stored review status: release_metadata_unconfirmed. Incoming connection: Explicit cross-reference supplied in source Markdown; currentness and applicability require review.
Federal law — U.S. Code and appendices · legal_authorities
Page 727
TITLE 5—GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
§ 5704
and paid on a daily when-actually-employed
basis, or serving without pay or at $1 a year,
may be allowed travel or transportation ex-
penses, under this subchapter, while away from
his home or regular place of business and at the
place of employment or service.
(Pub. L. 89–554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 499; Pub. L.
91–114, § 2, Nov. 10, 1969, 83 Stat. 190; Pub. L.
94–22, § 4, May 19, 1975, 89 Stat. 85.)
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
Derivation
U.S. Code
Revised Statutes and
Statutes at Large
..................
5 U.S.C. 73b–2.
Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 744, § 5, 60
Stat. 808.
July 28, 1955, ch. 424, § 2, 69
Stat. 394.
Aug. 14, 1961, Pub. L. 87–139,
§§ 2, 8(b), 75 Stat. 339, 340.
Subsection (a) is added on authority of section 18 of
the Act of Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 744, 60 Stat. 811.
In subsection (b), the words ‘‘in lieu of subsistence’’
are omitted as unnecessary in view of the definition of
‘‘per diem allowance’’ in section 5701(4). The words
‘‘this subchapter’’ are substituted for ‘‘the Standard-
ized Government Travel Regulations, Subsistence Ex-
pense Act of 1926, as amended (5 U.S.C. 821–833) and the
Act of February 14, 1931, as amended by this Act’’ as
the Subsistence Expense Act of 1926 and the Act of Feb-
ruary 14, 1931, were repealed by section 9(a) of the Trav-
el Expense Act of 1949, 63 Stat. 167, part of which ap-
peared in former section 842 and is carried into section
5708, and as the authority for the Standardized Govern-
ment Travel Regulations in former section 840 is car-
ried into section 5707.
In subsection (c), the words ‘‘this subchapter’’ are
substituted for ‘‘said regulations and said Act of Feb-
ruary 14, 1931, as so amended’’ as the Act of February
14, 1931, was repea
Source: Supplied 2024 U.S. Code historical extraction · 5 U.S.C. § 5704
Stored review status: historical_2024_not_currentness_verified. Same stored citation; legal effect and authority still require review.