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§2044 Special deposit account

Title 2 › Chapter CHAPTER 30— - OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF CAPITOL COMPLEX › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III— - RESTAURANTS › § 2044

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Creates a special Treasury account in the Architect of the Capitol’s name to run the United States Senate Restaurants. All money from sections 2042–2047, related resolutions, and restaurant operations must go into and be paid from that account. Treasury funds appropriated from fiscal year 1973 and after as “Contingent Expenses of the Senate” must be paid by the Secretary of the Senate to the Architect when the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration approves timing and amounts, and those payments must be deposited in full into the account.

Full Legal Text

Title 2, §2044

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There is established with the Treasurer of the United States a special deposit account in the name of the Architect of the Capitol for the United States Senate Restaurants, into which shall be deposited all sums received pursuant to sections 2042 to 2047 of this title or any amendatory or supplementary resolutions hereafter adopted and from the operations thereunder and from which shall be disbursed the sums necessary in connection with the exercise of the duties required under sections 2042 to 2047 of this title or any amendatory or supplementary resolutions and the operations thereunder. Any amounts appropriated for fiscal year 1973 and thereafter from the Treasury of the United States, which shall be part of a “Contingent Expenses of the Senate” item for the particular fiscal year involved, shall be paid to the Architect of the Capitol by the Secretary of the Senate at such times and in such sums as the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration may approve. Any such payment shall be deposited by the Architect in full under such special deposit account.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was classified to section 174j–4 of former Title 40, prior to the enactment of Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works, by Pub. L. 107–217, § 1, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1062.

Amendments

1972—Pub. L. 92–342 substituted provision that amounts appropriated for 1973 and thereafter which shall be part of “Contingent Expenses of the Senate” be paid to the Architect of the Capitol, for provision that amounts appropriated for 1972 and thereafter specifically for Senate Restaurants as “Contingent Expenses of the Senate” be paid to Architect of the Capitol. 1971—Pub. L. 92–51 substituted “amounts appropriated for fiscal year 1972 and thereafter” for Senate Restaurants for “amounts hereafter appropriated” for such Restaurants, provision that amounts appropriated specifically for such Restaurants as a Contingent Expense of the Senate item for fiscal year involved shall be paid to Architect of the Capitol, for prior provision declaring amounts appropriated for such Restaurants shall be a part of such Restaurants as a Contingent Expense of Senate for fiscal year involved and for payment of such part to Architect of the Capitol, and provision for approval of payments by Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, including times for payments, for prior provision for payments as appropriations shall specify.

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Citation

2 U.S.C. § 2044

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Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73