§2785 — Title 10 Armed Forces | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary of Defense, through the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller), must make rules about who can change where Defense payments are sent. The rules must stop the person who prepares a payment from changing an address given by the officer who approved or requested it. An address can be changed only if the person who should get the payment asks for it and an authorized person who is not the preparer makes the change.

Title 10, §2785

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The Secretary of Defense, acting through the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller), shall prescribe regulations setting forth controls on alteration of remittance addresses. Those regulations shall ensure that—

(1)a remittance address for a disbursement that is provided by an officer or employee of the Department of Defense authorizing or requesting the disbursement is not altered by any officer or employee of the department authorized to prepare the disbursement; and

(2)a remittance address for a disbursement is altered only if the alteration—

(A)is requested by the person to whom the disbursement is authorized to be remitted; and

(B)is made by an officer or employee authorized to do so who is not an officer or employee referred to in paragraph (1).

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Pub. L. 106–65, div. A, title IX, § 933(b)(2), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 730, provided that: “

Regulations

under section 2785 of title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection (a), shall be prescribed not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act [Oct. 5, 1999].”

§2785 Remittance Addresses: Regulation of Alterations

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Title 10, §2785

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