§1516 — Title 31 Money and Finance | U.S. Code

Summary

An official who decides apportionments can exclude certain funds from the rules that limit how agencies spend money. Apportionments are the limits on how much and when government units can use their money. They can leave out trust or working funds when spending from them does not significantly affect the government’s finances. They can leave out working capital or revolving funds used for internal government operations. They can leave out receipts from industrial and power activities that the law makes available. They can also leave out appropriations set aside for specific payments, such as interest and retirement of the public debt; claims, judgments, refunds, and drawbacks; items the President declares confidential; payments the law requires to go in full to a named payee; and grants to the states under the Social Security Act.

Title 31, §1516

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An official designated in section 1513 of this title to make apportionments may exempt from apportionment—

(1)a trust fund or working fund if an expenditure from the fund has no significant effect on the financial operations of the United States Government;

(2)a working capital fund or a revolving fund established for intragovernmental operations;

(3)receipts from industrial and power operations available under law; and

(4)appropriations made specifically for—

(A)interest on, or retirement of, the public debt;

(B)payment of claims, judgments, refunds, and drawbacks;

(C)items the President decides are of a confidential nature;

(D)payment under a law requiring payment of the total amount of the appropriation to a designated payee; and

(E)grants to the States under the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 301 et seq.).

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 151631:665(f)(1).R.S. § 3679(f)(1); Mar. 3, 1905, ch. 1484, § 4(1st par.), 33 Stat. 1257; Feb. 27, 1906, ch. 510, § 3, 34 Stat. 48; restated Sept. 6, 1950, ch. 896, § 1211, 64 Stat. 767. In the section, before clause (1), the word “apportionments” is substituted for “apportionments and reapportionments” because of section 1512(a)(last sentence) of the revised title. In subclause (D), the word “law” is substituted for “private relief acts or other laws” to eliminate unnecessary words.

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Social Security Act, referred to in par. (4)(E), is act Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, 49 Stat. 620, which is classified generally to chapter 7 (§ 301 et seq.) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 1305 of Title 42 and Tables.

§1516 Exemptions