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[CITE: 31USC1531]

 
                       TITLE 31--MONEY AND FINANCE
 
                     SUBTITLE II--THE BUDGET PROCESS
 
                  CHAPTER 15--APPROPRIATION ACCOUNTING
 
              SUBCHAPTER III--TRANSFERS AND REIMBURSEMENTS
 
Sec. 1531. Transfers of functions and activities

    (a) The balance of an appropriation available and necessary to 
finance or discharge a function or activity transferred or assigned 
under law within an executive agency or from one executive agency to 
another may be transferred to and used--
        (1) by the organizational unit or agency to which the function 
    or activity was transferred or assigned; and
        (2) for a purpose for which the appropriation was originally 
    available.

    (b) The head of the executive agency determines the amount that, 
with the approval of the President, is necessary to be transferred when 
the transfer or assignment of the function or activity is within the 
agency. The President determines the amount necessary to be transferred 
when the transfer or assignment of the function or activity is from one 
executive agency to another.
    (c) A balance transferred under this section is--
        (1) credited to an applicable existing or new appropriation 
    account;
        (2) merged with the amount in an account to which the balance is 
    credited; and
        (3) with the amount with which the balance is merged, accounted 
    for as one amount.

    (d) New appropriation accounts may be established to carry out 
subsection (c)(1) of this section.

(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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1531(a), (b).........................  31:581c(a)(1st sentence),       Sept. 12
, 1950, ch. 946, Sec.  202, 64
                                        (b)(1st sentence).              Stat. 8
38.
1531(c), (d).........................  31:581c(a)(last sentence),
                                        (b)(last sentence).
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    In subsections (a) and (b), the defined term ``executive agency'' in 
section 102 of the revised title is substituted for ``department or 
establishment'' for consistency and clarity.
    In subsection (a), the words ``organizational unit or agency'' are 
substituted for ``agency'', and the word ``appropriation'' is 
substituted for ``said funds'', for consistency and clarity.
    Subsection (d) is substituted for ``which are hereby authorized to 
be established'' because of the restatement.


   Prohibition on Transfer of Funds to Other Departments and Agencies

    Pub. L. 101-189, div. A, title XVI, Sec. 1604, Nov. 29, 1989, 103 
Stat. 1598, provided that funds available for military functions of 
Department of Defense could not be made available to any other 
department or agency of Federal Government pursuant to a provision of 
law enacted after Nov. 29, 1989, unless, not less than 30 days before 
such funds were made available to such other department or agency, 
Secretary of Defense submitted to congressional defense committees a 
report describing effect on military preparedness of making such funds 
available to such department or agency, prior to repeal and restatement 
in section 2215 of Title 10, Armed Forces, by Pub. L. 103-160, div. A, 
title XI, Sec. 1106(a)(1), (b), Nov. 30, 1993, 107 Stat. 1750.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 7 section 6912; title 20 
sections 76k, 3501; title 42 sections 5872, 7291; title 46 App. section 
1605.
