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[CITE: 31USC1347]

 
                       TITLE 31--MONEY AND FINANCE
 
                     SUBTITLE II--THE BUDGET PROCESS
 
                       CHAPTER 13--APPROPRIATIONS
 
         SUBCHAPTER III--LIMITATIONS, EXCEPTIONS, AND PENALTIES
 
Sec. 1347. Appropriations or authorizations required for 
        agencies in existence for more than one year
        
    (a) An agency in existence for more than one year may not use 
amounts otherwise available for obligation to pay its expenses without a 
specific appropriation or specific authorization by law. If the 
principal duties and powers of the agency are substantially the same as 
or similar to the duties and powers of an agency established by 
executive order, the agency established later is deemed to have been in 
existence from the date the agency established by the order came into 
existence.
    (b) Except as specifically authorized by law, another agency may not 
use amounts available for obligation to pay expenses to carry out duties 
and powers substantially the same as or similar to the principal duties 
and powers of an agency that is prohibited from using amounts under this 
section.

(Pub. L. 97-258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 925.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised Section                   Source (U.S. Code)                
Source (Statutes at Large)
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1347(a)..............................  31:696(1st, 2d sentences).      June 27,
 1944, ch. 286, Sec.  213, 58
                                                                        Stat. 3
87.
1347(b)..............................  31:696(last sentence).
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    In the section, the word ``agency'' is substituted for ``agency or 
instrumentality'' because of section 101 of the revised title and for 
consistency. The words ``amounts otherwise available for obligation'' 
are substituted for ``any appropriation or fund made available by this 
or any other Act'', and the words ``duties and powers'' are substituted 
for ``functions'', for consistency in the revised title.
    In subsection (a), the words ``After January 1, 1945'' are omitted 
as executed. The words ``including those established by Executive 
order'' are omitted the first time they appear as surplus. The words 
``from the date . . . came into existence'' are substituted for ``during 
the existence'' for clarity.
    In subsection (b), the word ``amounts'' is substituted for 
``appropriations'' for consistency in the revised title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1346 of this title.
