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[CITE: 31USC1514]

 
                       TITLE 31--MONEY AND FINANCE
 
                     SUBTITLE II--THE BUDGET PROCESS
 
                  CHAPTER 15--APPROPRIATION ACCOUNTING
 
                      SUBCHAPTER II--APPORTIONMENT
 
Sec. 1514. Administrative division of apportionments

    (a) The official having administrative control of an appropriation 
available to the legislative branch, the judicial branch, the United 
States International Trade Commission, or the District of Columbia 
government, and, subject to the approval of the President, the head of 
each executive agency (except the Commission) shall prescribe by 
regulation a system of administrative control not inconsistent with 
accounting procedures prescribed under law. The system shall be designed 
to--
        (1) restrict obligations or expenditures from each appropriation 
    to the amount of apportionments or reapportionments of the 
    appropriation; and
        (2) enable the official or the head of the executive agency to 
    fix responsibility for an obligation or expenditure exceeding an 
    apportionment or reapportionment.

    (b) To have a simplified system for administratively dividing 
appropriations, the head of each executive agency (except the 
Commission) shall work toward the objective of financing each operating 
unit, at the highest practical level, from not more than one 
administrative division for each appropriation affecting the unit.

(Pub. L. 97-258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 930.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised Section                   Source (U.S. Code)                
Source (Statutes at Large)
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1514(a)..............................  31:665(g)(2d sentence).         R.S. Sec
.  3679(g)(2d sentence); Mar. 3,
                                                                        1905, c
h. 1484, Sec.  4(1st par.), 33
                                                                        Stat. 1
257; Feb. 27, 1906, ch. 510, Sec.
                                                                         3, 34 
Stat. 48; restated Sept. 6, 1950,
                                                                        ch. 896
, Sec.  1211, 64 Stat. 767;
                                                                        Reorg. 
Plan No. 2 of 1970, eff. July 1,
                                                                        1970, S
ec.  102(a), 84 Stat. 2085; Jan.
                                                                        3, 1975
, Pub. L. 93-618, Sec.
                                                                        175(a)(
2), 88 Stat. 2011.
1514(b)..............................  31:665(g)(last sentence).       R.S. Sec
.  3679(g)(last sentence); added
                                                                        Aug. 1,
 1956, ch. 814, Sec.  3, 70 Stat.
                                                                        783.
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    In the section, the words ``(except the Commission)'' are added 
because the International Trade Commission is covered specifically by 
the source provisions restated in this section.
    In subsection (a), the word ``official'' is substituted for 
``officer'' for consistency in the revised title. The words ``judicial 
branch'' are substituted for ``judiciary'', and the words ``District of 
Columbia government'' are substituted for ``District of Columbia'', for 
consistency. The word ``President'' is substituted for ``Director of the 
Office of Management and Budget'' because sections 101 and 102(a) of 
Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1970 (eff. July 1, 1970, 84 Stat. 2085) 
designated the Bureau of the Budget as the Office of Management and 
Budget and transferred all functions of the Bureau to the President.
    In subsection (b), the words ``dividing'' and ``division'' are 
substituted for ``subdivision'' for consistency in the revised section. 
The word ``appropriations'' is substituted for ``appropriations or 
funds'' because of the definition of ``appropriation'' in section 1511 
of the revised title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1517 of this title; title 16 
section 470m.
