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[CITE: 31USC3529]

 
                       TITLE 31--MONEY AND FINANCE
 
                   SUBTITLE III--FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
 
                  CHAPTER 35--ACCOUNTING AND COLLECTION
 
             SUBCHAPTER III--AUDITING AND SETTLING ACCOUNTS
 
Sec. 3529. Requests for decisions of the Comptroller General

    (a) A disbursing or certifying official or the head of an agency may 
request a decision from the Comptroller General on a question 
involving--
        (1) a payment the disbursing official or head of the agency will 
    make; or
        (2) a voucher presented to a certifying official for 
    certification.

    (b)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the Comptroller General 
shall issue a decision requested under this section.
    (2) A decision requested under this section concerning a function 
transferred to or vested in the Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget under section 211(a) of the Legislative Branch Appropriations 
Act, 1996 (109 Stat. 535), as in effect immediately before the effective 
date of title II of the General Accounting Office Act of 1996, or under 
this Act, shall be issued--
        (A) by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, 
    except as provided in subparagraph (B); or
        (B) in the case of a function delegated by the Director to 
    another agency, by the head of the agency to which the function was 
    delegated.

(Pub. L. 97-258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 967; Pub. L. 104-316, title 
II, Sec. 204, Oct. 19, 1996, 110 Stat. 3845.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised Section                   Source (U.S. Code)                
Source (Statutes at Large)
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3529.................................  31:44(1st sentence).            June 10,
 1921, ch. 18, Sec.  304(1st par.
                                                                        1st sen
tence), 42 Stat. 24.
                                       31:74(last par. words before    July 31,
 1894, ch. 174, Sec.  8(6th par.
                                        4th comma).                     words b
efore 4th comma), 28 Stat. 208.
                                       31:82d(words after semicolon).  Dec. 29,
 1941, ch. 641, Secs.  3(words
                                                                        after s
emicolon), 4(related to Sec.  3
                                                                        ), 55 S
tat. 876.
                                       31:82e(related to 31:82d).
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    In subsection (a), before clause (1), the text of 31:82e(related to 
82d) is omitted as unnecessary because it does not apply to 31:82d. The 
words ``of law'' in 31:82d(words after semicolon) are omitted as 
surplus. In clause (1), the words ``or under them'' in 31:74(last par. 
words before 4th comma) are omitted as unnecessary. In clause (2), the 
words ``a payment on'' in 31:82d(words after semicolon) are omitted as 
surplus.
    In subsection (b), the word ``issue'' is substituted for ``render'' 
in 31:74(last par. words before 4th comma) and ``obtain'' in 
31:82d(words after semicolon) because of the restatement.

                       References in Text

    Section 211(a) of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1996, 
as in effect immediately before the effective date of title II of the 
General Accounting Office Act of 1996, referred to in subsec. (b)(2), is 
section 211(a) of Pub. L. 104-53, which is set out as a note under 
section 501 of this title, as in effect before Oct. 19, 1996, the date 
of enactment of the General Accounting Office Act of 1996, Pub. L. 104-
316, section 203 of which amended section 211 of Pub. L. 104-53 
generally.
    This Act, referred to in subsec. (b)(2), probably means Pub. L. 104-
316, Oct. 19, 1996, 110 Stat. 3286, known as the General Accounting 
Office Act of 1996, which enacted subsec. (b)(2) of this section. For 
complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.


                               Amendments

    1996--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 104-316 designated existing provisions as 
par. (1) and substituted ``Except as provided in paragraph (2), the 
Comptroller General'' for ``The Comptroller General'', and added par. 
(2).

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 3526 of this title.
