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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Chapter 43 — Department of Health and Human Services

§ 3513. Working capital fund; establishment; amount; use; reimbursement

Statutory text

There is established a working capital fund, to be available without fiscal year limitation, for expenses necessary for the maintenance and operation of (1) a central reproduction service; (2) a central visual exhibit service; (3) a central supply service for supplies and equipment for which adequate stocks may be maintained to meet in whole or in part the requirements of the Department; (4) a central tabulating service; (5) telephone, mail, and messenger services; (6) a central accounting and payroll service; and (7) a central laborers’ service: Provided, That any stocks of supplies and equipment on hand or on order shall be used to capitalize such fund: Provided further, That such fund shall be reimbursed in advance from funds available to bureaus, offices, and agencies for which such centralized services are performed at rates which will return in full all expenses of operation, including reserves for accrued annual leave and depreciation of equipment.

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. 82–575 · 66 Stat. 752

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 3513

    July 5, 1952, ch. 575, title II, § 201, 66 Stat. 369

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    July 5, 1952, ch. 575, title II, § 201, 66 Stat. 369

  2. Pub. L. 86–703 title II § 201 · 74 Stat. 753

    Changed · 42 U.S.C. § 3513

    Pub. L. 86–703 made fund available for maintenance and operation of a central visual exhibit service, telephone, mail and messenger services, a central accounting and payroll service, and a central laborers’ service

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 86–703 made fund available for maintenance and operation of a central visual exhibit service, telephone, mail and messenger services, a central accounting and payroll service, and a central laborers’ service.

0 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 2 partial

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was enacted as part of title II of act , popularly known as the Federal Security Agency Appropriation Act, 1953.

Section was formerly classified to section 905 of this title.

Amendments

1960—Pub. L. 86–703 made fund available for maintenance and operation of a central visual exhibit service, telephone, mail and messenger services, a central accounting and payroll service, and a central laborers’ service.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

“Secretary of Health and Human Services” and “Department of Health and Human Services” substituted for “Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare” and “Department of Health, Education, and Welfare”, respectively, pursuant to section 509(b) of Pub. L. 96–88, which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

Functions of Federal Security Administrator transferred to Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and all agencies of Federal Security Agency transferred to Department of Health, Education, and Welfare by section 5 of Reorg. No. 1 of 1953, set out as a note under section 202 of this title. Federal Security Agency and office of Administrator abolished by section 8 of Reorg. Plan No. 1 of 1953.

Credits

1952–1960 · 3 acts
  1. 1952July 5, 1952, ch. 575, title II, § 201, 66 Stat. 369
  2. 19531953 Reorg. Plan No. 1, §§ 5, 8, eff. , 18 F.R. 2053, 67 Stat. 631
  3. 1960Pub. L. 86–703, title II, § 201, , 74 Stat. 773.
Show as published

(July 5, 1952, ch. 575, title II, § 201, 66 Stat. 369; 1953 Reorg. Plan No. 1, §§ 5, 8, eff. , 18 F.R. 2053, 67 Stat. 631; Pub. L. 86–703, title II, § 201, , 74 Stat. 773.)

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