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[CITE: 41USC12]

 
                       TITLE 41--PUBLIC CONTRACTS
 
                      CHAPTER 1--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 12. No contract to exceed appropriation

    No contract shall be entered into for the erection, repair, or 
furnishing of any public building, or for any public improvement which 
shall bind the Government to pay a larger sum of money than the amount 
in the Treasury appropriated for the specific purpose.

(R.S. Sec. 3733.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 3733 derived from act July 25, 1868, ch. 233, Sec. 3, 15 
Stat. 177.


                            Cross References

    Contracting officer paying larger amount than specific 
appropriation, punishment for, see section 435 of Title 18, Crimes and 
Criminal Procedure.
    Foreign military personnel, furnishing facilities for training of 
without regard to this section, see section 2396 of Title 22, Foreign 
Relations and Intercourse.
    Making of contracts for public buildings on partial appropriations, 
see section 261 of Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works.
    Projects under Mexican treaties, authority to enter into contracts 
beyond amount appropriated, notwithstanding this section, see section 
277d-3 of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse.
    Section inapplicable to lease-purchase contracts, see section 356 of 
Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 22 sections 277d-3, 2396; title 
40 section 356.
