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[CITE: 5USC5741]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
                      Subpart D--Pay and Allowances
 
           CHAPTER 57--TRAVEL, TRANSPORTATION, AND SUBSISTENCE
 
   SUBCHAPTER III--TRANSPORTATION OF REMAINS, DEPENDENTS, AND EFFECTS
 
Sec. 5741. General prohibition

    Except as specifically authorized by statute, the head of an 
Executive department or military department may not authorize an 
expenditure in connection with the transportation of remains of a 
deceased employee.

(Pub. L. 89-554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 506.)

                      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. 103.                 June 7, 1897, ch. 3,
                                                    Sec.  1 (last
                                                    proviso on p. 86),
                                                    30 Stat. 86.
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    The words ``a military department'' are inserted to preserve the 
application of the source law. Before enactment of the National Security 
Act Amendments of 1949 (63 Stat. 578), the Department of the Army, the 
Department of the Navy, and the Department of the Air Force were 
Executive departments. The National Security Act Amendments of 1949 
established the Department of Defense as an Executive Department 
including the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, and 
the Department of the Air Force as military departments, not as 
Executive departments. However, the source law for this section, which 
was in effect in 1949, remained applicable to the Secretaries of the 
military departments by virtue of section 12(g) of the National Security 
Act Amendments of 1949 (63 Stat. 591), which is set out in the reviser's 
note for section 301.
    Standard changes are made to conform with the definitions applicable 
and the style of this title as outlined in the preface to the report.
