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Title 31 — Money and Finance

Chapter 15 — Appropriation Accounting

§ 1533. Transfers of appropriations for salaries and expenses to carry out national defense responsibilities

Statutory text

An appropriation of an executive agency for salaries and expenses is available to carry out national defense responsibilities assigned to the agency under law. A transfer necessary to carry out this section may be made between appropriations or allocations within the executive agency. An allocation may not be made to an executive agency that can carry out with its regular personnel a defense activity assigned to it by using the authority of this section to re­align its regular programs.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 97–258 · 96 Stat. 933

    Enacted · 31 U.S.C. § 1533

    (Pub. L. 97–258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 933.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 97–258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 933.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Notes

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Historical and Revision Notes
Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large)
153331:697.June 2, 1951, ch. 121, ch. XI(proviso immediately before heading “Independent Offices”), 65 Stat. 61.

The words “executive agency” are substituted for “department, agency, or corporation, in the executive branch of the Government” because of section 102 of the revised title. The words “authority of this section” are substituted for “foregoing authority” for clarity.

Credits

(Pub. L. 97–258, , 96 Stat. 933.)

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