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[CITE: 5USC5946]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
                      Subpart D--Pay and Allowances
 
                         CHAPTER 59--ALLOWANCES
 
                 SUBCHAPTER IV--MISCELLANEOUS ALLOWANCES
 
Sec. 5946. Membership fees; expenses of attendance at meetings; 
        limitations
        
    Except as authorized by a specific appropriation, by express terms 
in a general appropriation, or by sections 4109 and 4110 of this title, 
appropriated funds may not be used for payment of--
        (1) membership fees or dues of an employee as defined by section 
    2105 of this title or an individual employed by the government of 
    the District of Columbia in a society or association; or
        (2) expenses of attendance of an individual at meetings or 
    conventions of members of a society or association.

This section does not prevent the use of appropriations for the 
Department of Agriculture for expenses incident to the delivery of 
lectures, the giving of instructions, or the acquiring of information at 
meetings by its employees on subjects relating to the authorized work of 
the Department.

(Pub. L. 89-554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 514.)

                      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. 83.                  June 26, 1912, ch.
                                                    182, Sec.  8, 37
                                                    Stat. 184.
                                                   Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 145
                                                    (3d full par. on p.
                                                    854), 37 Stat. 854.
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    The words ``or by sections 4109 and 4110 of this title'' are added 
on authority of former sections 2309 and 2318(b), which are carried into 
sections 4109 and 4110, respectively.
    In the last sentence, the words ``This section does not'' are 
substituted for ``That nothing contained in the Act making 
appropriations to provide for the expenses of the Government of the 
District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen 
hundred and thirteen, and for other purposes, approved June twenty-
sixth, nineteen hundred and twelve, shall be so construed as to'' 
appearing in the Act of Mar. 4, 1913, 37 Stat. 854.
    Standard changes are made to conform with the definitions applicable 
and the style of this title as outlined in the preface to the report.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 22 section 1474.
