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[CITE: 38USC513]

 
                      TITLE 38--VETERANS' BENEFITS
 
                       PART I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
            CHAPTER 5--AUTHORITY AND DUTIES OF THE SECRETARY
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL AUTHORITIES
 
Sec. 513. Contracts and personal services

    The Secretary may, for purposes of all laws administered by the 
Department, accept uncompensated services, and enter into contracts or 
agreements with private or public agencies or persons (including 
contracts for services of translators without regard to any other law), 
for such necessary services (including personal services) as the 
Secretary may consider practicable. The Secretary may also enter into 
contracts or agreements with private concerns or public agencies for the 
hiring of passenger motor vehicles or aircraft for official travel 
whenever, in the Secretary's judgment, such arrangements are in the 
interest of efficiency or economy.

(Added Pub. L. 102-83, Sec. 2(a), Aug. 6, 1991, 105 Stat. 389.)


                            Prior Provisions

    Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in 
section 213 of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 102-83, Sec. 2(a).
