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§6725 Statement of assurances as prerequisite for payments; rules governing time and manner of filing; contents of statement

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 80— - PUBLIC WORKS EMPLOYMENT › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - ANTIRECESSION PROVISIONS › § 6725

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

States and local governments can only get payments if they file a "statement of assurances" with the Secretary at the time and in the way the Secretary sets by rule. The Secretary had to create those rules no later than ninety days after July 22, 1976. The Secretary cannot make a State or local government file more than one such statement in each fiscal year. The statement must promise that the money will be used to help keep public jobs and basic services at their usual levels, as allowed by section 6724; that the government will follow the Secretary’s accounting and audit rules and let the Secretary and the Comptroller General check its books on reasonable notice; that it will send required reports to the Secretary and make those reports public in a local newspaper unless that is too costly, in which case other publicity rules set by the Secretary will apply; that it will follow the requirements of sections 6727, 6728, and 6729; that it will spend the payment within the six-calendar-month period starting the day after it receives the money; and that it will spend the funds only under the same laws and procedures it uses for its own revenues.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §6725

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Each State and unit of local government may receive payments under this subchapter only upon filing with the Secretary, at such time and in such manner as the Secretary prescribes by rule, a statement of assurances. Such rules shall be prescribed by the Secretary not later than ninety days after July 22, 1976. The Secretary may not require any State or local government to file more than one such statement during each fiscal year. Each such statement shall contain— (1)

(2)an assurance that the State or unit of local government will—

(A)use fiscal, accounting, and audit procedures which conform to guidelines established therefor by the Secretary (after consultation with the Comptroller General of the United States), and

(B)provide to the Secretary (and to the Comptroller General of the United States), on reasonable notice, access to, and the right to examine, such books, documents, papers, or records as the Secretary may reasonably require for purposes of reviewing compliance with this subchapter;

(3)an assurance that reasonable reports will be furnished to the Secretary in such form and containing such information as the Secretary may reasonably require to carry out the purposes of this subchapter and that such report shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the jurisdiction of such government unless the cost of such publication is excessive in relation to the amount of the payments received by such government under this subchapter or other means of publicizing such report is more appropriate, in which case such report shall be publicized pursuant to rules prescribed by the Secretary;

(4)an assurance that the requirements of section 6727 of this title will be complied with;

(5)an assurance that the requirements of section 6728 of this title will be complied with;

(6)an assurance that the requirements of section 6729 of this title will be complied with;

(7)an assurance that the State or unit of local government will spend any payment it receives under this subchapter before the end of the six-calendar-month period which begins on the day after the date on which such State or local government receives such payment; and

(8)an assurance that the State or unit of local government will spend amounts received under this subchapter only in accordance with the laws and procedures applicable to the expenditure of its own revenues.

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42 U.S.C. § 6725

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73