Title 31 › Subtitle SUBTITLE IV— - MONEY › Chapter CHAPTER 51— - COINS AND CURRENCY › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER IV— - BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING › § 5142
Creates a Bureau of Engraving and Printing Fund at the Treasury. Money in the Fund must be used to run the Bureau. The money stays in the Fund until it is spent. Congress may put more money into the Fund. The Fund includes three kinds of things: property and physical assets the Bureau owns (but not buildings or land), all money the Bureau receives, and money from selling Fund property. The Fund’s capital is made of amounts appropriated, physical assets the Bureau had at the close of business on June 30, 1951 (except buildings and land), and payments made after June 30, 1974 under section 5143 that are adjusted to allow buying equipment and keeping working capital. Each fiscal year, the Secretary of the Treasury must send to the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts any prior‑year Fund amounts the Secretary finds are more than the Fund needs, unless the Secretary uses that excess to restore Fund capital that was reduced by the difference between what the Bureau charged for services and what those services cost. The Secretary must also keep a special deposit account in the Treasury for the Fund and credit it with appropriations and the Bureau’s receipts without treating those receipts as miscellaneous receipts.
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31 U.S.C. § 5142
Title 31 — Money and Finance
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Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73