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[CITE: 5USC5583]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
                      Subpart D--Pay and Allowances
 
                     CHAPTER 55--PAY ADMINISTRATION
 
                 SUBCHAPTER VIII--SETTLEMENT OF ACCOUNTS
 
Sec. 5583. Payment of money due; settlement of accounts

    (a) Under such regulations as the Director of the Office of 
Personnel Management may prescribe, the employing agency shall pay money 
due a deceased employee to the beneficiary designated by the employee 
under section 5582(b) of this title, or, if none, to the widow or 
widower of the employee.
    (b) The Director may by regulation prescribe the method for 
settlement of accounts payable under subsection (a) of this section. 
However--
        (1) accounts of employees of the government of the District of 
    Columbia shall be paid by the District of Columbia; and
        (2) accounts of employees of Government corporations or mixed 
    ownership Government corporations may be paid by the corporations.

(Pub. L. 89-554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 496; Pub. L. 96-70, title III, 
Sec. 3302(e)(7), Sept. 27, 1979, 93 Stat. 498; Pub. L. 104-316, title 
II, Sec. 202(b), Oct. 19, 1996, 110 Stat. 3842.)

                      Historical and Revision Notes
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                                                    Revised Statutes and
     Derivation                U.S. Code             Statutes at Large
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                     5 U.S.C. 61h.                  Aug. 3, 1950, ch.
                                                    518, Sec.  3, 64
                                                    Stat. 396.
                                                   Apr. 30, 1954, ch.
                                                    177, Sec.  1, 68
                                                    Stat. 64.
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    In subsection (a), the word ``officer'' is omitted as included in 
``employee''.
    Standard changes are made to conform with the definitions applicable 
and the style of this title as outlined in the preface to the report.


                               Amendments

    1996--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 104-316, Sec. 202(b)(1), substituted 
``Director of the Office of Personnel Management'' for ``Comptroller 
General of the United States''.
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 104-316, Sec. 202(b)(2), substituted ``The 
Director may by regulation prescribe the method for settlement of 
accounts payable under subsection (a) of this section.'' for ``Except as 
the Comptroller General may by regulation otherwise authorize or direct, 
accounts not payable under subsection (a) of this section are payable on 
settlement of the General Accounting Office.''
    1979--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 96-70 struck out par. (2) providing that 
accounts of the employees of the Canal Zone Government be paid by the 
Canal Zone Government, and redesignated par. (3) as (2).


                    Effective Date of 1979 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 96-70 effective Oct. 1, 1979, see section 3304 
of Pub. L. 96-70, set out as an Effective Date note under section 3601 
of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse.
