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[CITE: 31USC1341]

 
                       TITLE 31--MONEY AND FINANCE
 
                     SUBTITLE II--THE BUDGET PROCESS
 
                       CHAPTER 13--APPROPRIATIONS
 
         SUBCHAPTER III--LIMITATIONS, EXCEPTIONS, AND PENALTIES
 
Sec. 1341. Limitations on expending and obligating amounts

    (a)(1) An officer or employee of the United States Government or of 
the District of Columbia government may not--
        (A) make or authorize an expenditure or obligation exceeding an 
    amount available in an appropriation or fund for the expenditure or 
    obligation;
        (B) involve either government in a contract or obligation for 
    the payment of money before an appropriation is made unless 
    authorized by law;
        (C) make or authorize an expenditure or obligation of funds 
    required to be sequestered under section 252 of the Balanced Budget 
    and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985; or
        (D) involve either government in a contract or obligation for 
    the payment of money required to be sequestered under section 252 of 
    the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.

    (2) This subsection does not apply to a corporation getting amounts 
to make loans (except paid in capital amounts) without legal liability 
of the United States Government.
    (b) An article to be used by an executive department in the District 
of Columbia that could be bought out of an appropriation made to a 
regular contingent fund of the department may not be bought out of 
another amount available for obligation.

(Pub. L. 97-258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 923; Pub. L. 101-508, title 
XIII, Sec. 13213(a), Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1388-621.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised Section                   Source (U.S. Code)                
Source (Statutes at Large)
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1341(a)..............................  31:665(a), (d)(2)(last          R.S. Sec
.  3679(a), (d)(2)(last sentence
                                        sentence related to spending    related
 to spending and obligations);
                                        and obligations).               Mar. 3,
 1905, ch. 1484, Sec.  4(1st
                                                                        par.), 
33 Stat. 1257; Feb. 27, 1906, ch.
                                                                        510, Se
c.  3, 34 Stat. 48; restated
                                                                        Sept. 6
, 1950, ch. 896, Sec.  1211, 64
                                                                        Stat. 7
65.
1341(b)..............................  31:669(words after semicolon).  Aug. 23,
 1912, ch. 350, Sec.  6(words
                                                                        after s
emicolon), 37 Stat. 414.
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    In subsection (b), the words ``another amount available for 
obligation'' are substituted for ``any other fund'' for consistency in 
the revised title.

                       References in Text

    Section 252 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 
of 1985, referred to in subsec. (a)(1)(C), (D), is classified to section 
902 of Title 2, The Congress.


                               Amendments

    1990--Subsec. (a)(1)(C), (D). Pub. L. 101-508 added subpars. (C) and 
(D).

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 1349, 1350, 1351 of this 
title; title 2 section 60a-2; title 5 section 5306; title 8 section 
1363a; title 16 sections 450ss-4, 698v-4, 754c; title 19 section 2081; 
title 20 section 1225; title 22 sections 277d-3, 1461b, 2295b, 5857; 
title 26 section 7608; title 33 section 891d; title 40 section 490e; 
title 42 sections 2204, 2204a, 2210, 2295, 2394, 9619; title 43 section 
377b; title 49 sections 40110, 40111, 40112; title 50 section 403f.
