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[CITE: 10USC9840]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                          Subtitle D--Air Force
 
                PART IV--SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT
 
             CHAPTER 953--ACCOUNTABILITY AND RESPONSIBILITY
 
Sec. 9840. Final settlement of officer's accounts

    Before final payment upon discharge may be made to an officer of the 
Air Force who has been accountable or responsible for public property, 
he must obtain a certificate of nonindebtedness to the United States 
from each officer to whom he was accountable or responsible for 
property. He must also make an affidavit, certified by his commanding 
officer to be correct, that he is not accountable or responsible for 
property to any other officer. An officer who has not been responsible 
for public property must make an affidavit of that fact, certified by 
his commanding officer. Compliance with this section warrants the final 
payment of the officer concerned.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 595.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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9840..................................  10:878.                              Ja
n. 12, 1899, ch. 46, Sec.  2, 30
                                                                              S
tat. 784.
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    The words ``Before final payment upon discharge may be made'' are 
substituted for the words ``shall warrant their final payment''. The 
words ``at any time'' are omitted as surplusage. The word ``must'' is 
substituted for the words ``shall be required * * * to''. The words ``He 
must also make'' are substituted for the words ``accompanied by''. The 
words ``from each officer to whom he was accountable or responsible for 
property'' are substituted for the words ``from only such of the bureaus 
of the Department of the Army to which the property for which they were 
accountable or responsible pertains'', since the Air Force does not have 
organic bureaus created by statute. The words ``that he is not 
accountable or responsible for property to any other officer'' are 
substituted for the words ``accompanied by the affidavits of officers, 
of nonaccountability, or nonresponsibility to other bureaus of the 
Department of the Army'' for the same reason. The reference to 
certificates from the General Accounting Office is omitted as obsolete. 
The last sentence is substituted for 10:878 (last 18 words). The last 
proviso of section 2 of the Act of January 12, 1899, ch. 46, 30 Stat. 
784, is not contained in 10:878. It is also omitted from the revised 
section, since it related to authority of mustering officers to 
administer oaths, and the general authority to administer oaths is now 
contained in section 936 of this title (article 136 of the Uniform Code 
of Military Justice).
