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31 U.S.C. § 1347 — Appropriations or authorizations required for agencies in existence for more than one year
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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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**(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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**(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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TITLE 31—MONEY AND FINANCE
§ 1348
group’’ are substituted for ‘‘committees, boards, or
other interagency groups’’ to eliminate unnecessary
words. The words ‘‘includes a representative of the
agency’’ are substituted for ‘‘composed in whole or in
part of representatives thereof’’ for clarity.
In subsection (c)(1), the words ‘‘authorized by law’’
are substituted for ‘‘unless the creation . . . shall be or
shall have been authorized by law’’ to eliminate unnec-
essary words.
In subsection (c)(2), the words ‘‘armed forces’’ are
substituted for ‘‘military or naval service of the United
States’’ for consistency.
Subsection (c)(3) is substituted for the last sentence
of 31:672 to eliminate unnecessary words.
§ 1347. Appropriations or authorizations required
for agencies in existence for more than one
year
(a) An agency in existence for more than one
year may not use amounts otherwise available
for obligation to pay its expenses without a spe-
cific 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 estab-
lished by executive order, the agency estab-
lished 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 du-
ties 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.
(Pub. L. 97–258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 925.)
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