Volume 92 · 725
Public Law 95–380
To authorize the issuance of substitute Treasury checks without undertakings of indemnity, except as the Secretary of the Treasury may require.
Approved September 22, 1978
Statutory text
An Act
To authorize the issuance of substitute Treasury checks without undertakings of indemnity, except as the Secretary of the Treasury may require.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That subsection (a) of section 3646 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended (31 U.S.C. 528(a)), is further amended by striking out “upon receipt and approval by the Secretary of the Treasury of an undertaking to indemnify the United States, in such form and amount and with such surety, sureties or security, if any, as the Secretary of the Treasury may require;”.
Sec. 2.
Subsection (b) of section 3646 of the Revised Statutes of
Exceptions.
the United States, as amended (31 U.S.C. 528(b)), is further amended to read as follows:
“(b) The Secretary of the Treasury, may, before issuance of a substitute check, require from the owner or holder of the check an undertaking to indemnify the United States, in the form and amount and with the surety or security the Secretary believes necessary.”.
Approved September 22, 1978.