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.
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. 1801Enacted 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.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
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(Pub. L. 91–609, title VII, § 725, , 84 Stat. 1801; Pub. L. 108–271, § 8(b), , 118 Stat. 814.)