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§1856d Funds

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 15A— - RECIPROCAL FIRE PROTECTION AGREEMENTS › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - PROTECTION OF UNITED STATES PROPERTY › § 1856d

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Agency leaders can use the money they have for fire protection to pay for work under this part of the law. Any payments they get for providing fire protection must be sent to the U.S. Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. If the Department of Defense or the Department of Agriculture is reimbursed for fire costs, the money must be put back into the same account or, if that account can no longer be used, into the fund they now use for the same purpose. Money returned must follow the same rules as that account.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §1856d

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(a)Funds available to any agency head for fire protection on installations or in connection with activities under the jurisdiction of such agency may be used to carry out the purposes of this subchapter. All sums received by any agency head for fire protection rendered pursuant to this subchapter shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.
(b)Notwithstanding subsection (a), all sums received as reimbursements for costs incurred by any Department of Defense or Department of Agriculture activity for fire protection rendered pursuant to this subchapter shall be credited to the same appropriation or fund from which the expenses were paid or, if the period of availability for obligation for that appropriation has expired, to the appropriation or fund that is currently available to the activity for the same purpose. Amounts so credited shall be subject to the same provisions and restrictions as the appropriation or account to which credited.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2014—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 113–79 inserted “or Department of Agriculture” after “Department of Defense”. 2011—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 112–81 amended subsec. (b) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (b) read as follows: “Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a), all sums received for any Department of Defense activity for fire protection rendered pursuant to this subchapter shall be credited to the appropriation fund or account from which the expenses were paid. Amounts so credited shall be merged with funds in such appropriation fund or account and shall be available for the same purposes and subject to the same limitations as the funds with which the funds are merged.” 2008—Pub. L. 110–181 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2011 Amendment Pub. L. 112–81, div. A, title III, § 364(b), Dec. 31, 2011, 125 Stat. 1380, provided that: “The amendment made by subsection (a) [amending this section] shall apply with respect to reimbursements for expenditures of funds appropriated after the date of the enactment of this Act [Dec. 31, 2011].”

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 1856d

Title 42The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73