§26 — Title 13 Census | U.S. Code

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The Secretary can rent transportation for field employees. Inside the continental United States the rentals must be types other than motorcycle, automobile, or airplane; outside the continental United States any type, including an employee’s own vehicle, may be rented. These rental contracts do not have to follow section 4 of the Travel Expense Act of 1949 (5 U.S.C. 837). Rentals must use the prevailing local rates, and inside the continental United States they may be made only if they are safer, more economical, or more advantageous to the Government than using a motorcycle, automobile, or airplane.

Title 13, §26

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The Secretary may contract with field employees for the rental and use within the continental limits of the United States of means of transportation, other than motorcycle, automobile, or airplane, and for the rental and use outside of the continental United States of any means of transportation, which means may be owned by the field employee. Such rental contracts shall be made without regard to section 4 of the Travel Expense Act of 1949, as amended (5 U.S.C. 837). The rentals shall be at rates equivalent to the prevailing rental rates of the locality. The rental contracts within the continental United States may be entered into only when the use by the field employee of such other means of transportation is safer, more economical, or more advantageous to the Government than use of his motorcycle, automobile, or airplane in conducting the census.

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section 4 of the Travel Expense Act of 1949, as amended (5 U.S.C. 837), referred to in text, was repealed by Pub. L. 89–554, § 8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 632, and reenacted by the first section thereof as section 5704 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

§26 Transportation by contract

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Title 13, §26

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