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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Part B · Chapter 59 — National Urban Policy and New Community Development

§ 4526. Audit by Government Accountability Office

Statutory text

Insofar as they relate to any guarantees, loans, or grants made pursuant to this part, the financial transactions of recipients of Federal assistance may be audited by the Government Accountability Office under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Comptroller General of the United States. The representatives of the Government Accountability Office shall have access to all books, accounts, records, reports, files and all other papers, things, or property belonging to or in use by such recipients pertaining to such financial transactions and necessary to facilitate the audit.

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. Housing and Urban Development Act of 1970

    Pub. L. 91–609 title VII § 725 · 84 Stat. 1770

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 4526

    Pub. L. 91–609, title VII, § 725, Dec. 31, 1970, 84 Stat. 1801

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 91–609, title VII, § 725, Dec. 31, 1970, 84 Stat. 1801

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 725. audit by general accounting office Insofar as they relate to any guarantees, loans, or grants made pursuant to this part, the financial transactions of recipients of Federal assistance may be audited by the General Accounting Office under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Comptroller General of the United States. The representatives of the General Accounting Records, access. Office shall have access to all books, accounts, records, reports, files, and all other papers, things, or property belonging to or in use by such recipients pertaining to such financial transactions and necessary to facilitate the audit.

  2. GAO Human Capital Reform Act of 2004

    Pub. L. 108–271 § 8(b) · 118 Stat. 811

    Substituted · 42 U.S.C. § 4526

    Pub. L. 108–271 substituted “Government Accountability Office” for “General Accounting Office” in section catchline and two places in text

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 108–271 substituted “Government Accountability Office” for “General Accounting Office” in section catchline and two places in text.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (b) References.— Any reference to the General Accounting Office in any law, rule, regulation, certificate, directive, instruction, or other official paper in force on the date of enactment of this Act shall be considered to refer and apply to the Government Accountability Office.

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2004—Pub. L. 108–271 substituted “Government Accountability Office” for “General Accounting Office” in section catchline and two places in text.

Credits

1970–2004 · 2 acts
  1. 1970Pub. L. 91–609, title VII, § 725, , 84 Stat. 1801
  2. 2004Pub. L. 108–271, § 8(b), , 118 Stat. 814.
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(Pub. L. 91–609, title VII, § 725, , 84 Stat. 1801; Pub. L. 108–271, § 8(b), , 118 Stat. 814.)

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