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[CITE: 31USC1517]

 
                       TITLE 31--MONEY AND FINANCE
 
                     SUBTITLE II--THE BUDGET PROCESS
 
                  CHAPTER 15--APPROPRIATION ACCOUNTING
 
                      SUBCHAPTER II--APPORTIONMENT
 
Sec. 1517. Prohibited obligations and expenditures

    (a) An officer or employee of the United States Government or of the 
District of Columbia government may not make or authorize an expenditure 
or obligation exceeding--
        (1) an apportionment; or
        (2) the amount permitted by regulations prescribed under section 
    1514(a) of this title.

    (b) If an officer or employee of an executive agency or of the 
District of Columbia government violates subsection (a) of this section, 
the head of the executive agency or the Mayor of the District of 
Columbia, as the case may be, shall report immediately to the President 
and Congress all relevant facts and a statement of actions taken.

(Pub. L. 97-258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 932.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised Section                   Source (U.S. Code)                
Source (Statutes at Large)
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1517(a)..............................  31:665(h).                      R.S. Sec
.  3679(h), (i)(2)(related to
                                                                        (h)); M
ar. 3, 1905, ch. 1484, Sec.
                                                                        4(1st p
ar.), 33 Stat. 1257; Feb. 27,
                                                                        1906, c
h. 510, Sec.  3, 34 Stat. 48;
                                                                        restate
d Sept. 6, 1950, ch. 896, Sec.
                                                                        1211, 6
4 Stat. 768.
1517(b)..............................  31:665(i)(2)(related to (h)).
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    In subsection (a), before clause (1), the words ``District of 
Columbia government'' are added because of section 9 of the Act of June 
26, 1912 (ch. 182, 37 Stat. 184). In clause (1), the word 
``apportionment'' is substituted for ``apportionment or 
reapportionment'' because of section 1512(a)(last sentence) of the 
revised title.
    In subsection (b), the word ``Mayor'' is used because of 
Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1967 (eff. Aug. 11, 1967, 81 Stat. 948) and 
sections 421, 422, and 771 of the District of Columbia Self-Government 
and Governmental Reorganization Act (Pub. L. 93-198, 87 Stat. 789, 818). 
The word ``President'' is substituted for ``President, through the 
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.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 1518, 1519 of this title.
