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[CITE: 31USC3326]

 
                       TITLE 31--MONEY AND FINANCE
 
                   SUBTITLE III--FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
 
            CHAPTER 33--DEPOSITING, KEEPING, AND PAYING MONEY
 
                         SUBCHAPTER II--PAYMENTS
 
Sec. 3326. Waiver of requirements for warrants and advances

    (a) When the Secretary of the Treasury and the Comptroller General 
decide that, with sufficient safeguards, existing procedures may be 
changed to simplify, improve, and economize the control and accounting 
of public money, they may prescribe joint regulations for waiving any 
part of the requirements in effect on September 12, 1950, that--
        (1) warrants be issued and countersigned for the receipt, 
    retention, and disbursement of public money and trust funds; and
        (2) amounts be requisitioned and advanced to accountable 
    officials.

    (b) Regulations of the Secretary and the Comptroller General may 
provide for the payment of vouchers by authorized disbursing officials 
by checks drawn on the general fund of the Treasury. However, the 
regulations shall provide for appropriate action (including suspension 
or withdrawal of authority to make payments) against a delinquent 
disbursing official for any reason related to the official's accounts.

(Pub. L. 97-258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 951.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised Section                   Source (U.S. Code)                
Source (Statutes at Large)
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3326(a)..............................  31:66c(a).                      Sept. 12
, 1950, ch. 946, Sec.  115, 64
                                                                        Stat. 8
37.
3326(b)..............................  31:66c(b).
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    In subsection (a), before clause (1), the words ``in effect on 
September 12, 1950'' are substituted for ``existing'' for clarity. In 
clause (2), the words ``under each separate appropriation head or 
otherwise'' are omitted as surplus.
    In subsection (b), the word ``official'' is substituted for 
``officers'' for consistency. The word ``Treasury'' is substituted for 
``Treasurer of the United States'' because of the source provisions 
restated in section 321 of the revised title and Department of the 
Treasury Order 229 of January 14, 1974 (39 F.R. 2280). The words ``in 
the rendition of their accounts or for other'' and ``under necessary 
circumstances'' are omitted as surplus.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 3301, 3323 of this title.
