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[CITE: 5USC5751]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
                      Subpart D--Pay and Allowances
 
           CHAPTER 57--TRAVEL, TRANSPORTATION, AND SUBSISTENCE
 
                 SUBCHAPTER IV--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 5751. Travel expenses of witnesses

    (a) Under such regulations as the Attorney General may prescribe, an 
employee as defined by section 2105 of this title (except an individual 
whose pay is disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate or the Chief 
Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives) summoned, or 
assigned by his agency, to testify or produce official records on behalf 
of the United States is entitled to travel expenses under subchapter I 
of this chapter. If the case involves the activity in connection with 
which he is employed, the travel expenses are paid from the 
appropriation otherwise available for travel expenses of the employee 
under proper certification by a certifying official of the agency 
concerned. If the case does not involve its activity, the employing 
agency may advance or pay the travel expenses of the employee, and later 
obtain reimbursement from the agency properly chargeable with the travel 
expenses.
    (b) An employee as defined by section 2105 of this title (except an 
individual whose pay is disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate or the 
Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives) summoned, 
or assigned by his agency, to testify in his official capacity or 
produce official records, on behalf of a party other than the United 
States, is entitled to travel expenses under subchapter I of this 
chapter, except to the extent that travel expenses are paid to the 
employee for his appearance by the court, authority, or party which 
caused him to be summoned.

(Added Pub. L. 91-563, Sec. 4(a), Dec. 19, 1970, 84 Stat. 1477; amended 
Pub. L. 104-186, title II, Sec. 215(9), Aug. 20, 1996, 110 Stat. 1746.)


                               Amendments

    1996--Pub. L. 104-186 substituted ``Chief Administrative Officer'' 
for ``Clerk'' in subsecs. (a) and (b).

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 2 section 1385.
