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[CITE: 41USC115]

 
                       TITLE 41--PUBLIC CONTRACTS
 
                 CHAPTER 2--TERMINATION OF WAR CONTRACTS
 
Sec. 115. Personal financial liability of contracting officers

    (a) Whenever any payment is made from Government funds to any war 
contractor or other person as an advance, partial or final payment on 
any termination claim, or pursuant to any loan, guaranty, or agreement 
for the purchase of any loan, or any commitment in connection therewith, 
entered into by the Government, no officer or other Government agent 
authorizing or approving such payment or settlement, or certifying the 
voucher for such payment, or making the payment in accordance with a 
duly certified voucher, shall be personally liable for such payment, in 
the absence of fraud on his part. In settling the accounts of any 
disbursing officer the General Accounting Office shall allow any such 
disbursements made by him notwithstanding any other provisions of law.
    (b) For the purpose of making termination settlements or interim 
financing any Government agency is authorized to rely upon such 
certificates of war contractors as it deems proper and to permit war 
contractors and other persons to rely upon such certificates without 
financial liability in the absence of fraud on their part.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 358, Sec. 15, 58 Stat. 664.)
