Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-110
§4602 Contracted Property and Services: Prompt Payment of Vouchers
Title 10 › Subtitle A — General Military Law › PART V — ACQUISITION › Subpart H — Contract Management › CHAPTER 361 — CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION › § 4602
Summary
The Defense Finance and Accounting Service must keep unpaid contract invoices in its automated payment system to no more than 5 percent of all such invoices that are unpaid on the last day of each month, and none of those counted may be unpaid for more than 30 days. A contract voucher is an invoice or bill asking for payment to a contractor for services or items provided under a Department of Defense–funded contract.
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Title 10, §4602
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(a)Requirement.—
Of the contract vouchers that are received by the Defense Finance and Accounting Service by means of the mechanization of contract administration services system, the number of such vouchers that remain unpaid for more than 30 days as of the last day of each month may not exceed 5 percent of the total number of the contract vouchers so received that remain unpaid on that day.
(b)Contract Voucher Defined.—
In this section, the term “contract voucher” means a voucher or invoice for the payment to a contractor for services or deliverable items provided by the contractor under a contract funded by the Department of Defense.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2021—Pub. L. 116–283 renumbered section 2226 of this title as this section. 2018—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 115–232 substituted “for services or deliverable items” for “for services, commercial items (as defined in section 103 of title 41), or other deliverable items”. 2011—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 111–350 substituted “section 103 of title 41” for “section 4(12) of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act (41 U.S.C. 403(12))”.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
of 2021 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 116–283 effective Jan. 1, 2022, with additional provisions for delayed implementation and applicability of existing law, see section 1801(d) of Pub. L. 116–283, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.
Effective Date
of 2018 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Jan. 1, 2020, subject to a
Savings Provision
, see section 836(h) of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as an
Effective Date
of 2018 Amendment;
Savings Provision
note under section 453b of Title 6, Domestic Security.
Effective Date
Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [[div. A], title X, § 1006(b)], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A–248, provided that: “Section 2226 of title 10, United States Code [now 10 U.S.C. 4602] (as added by subsection (a)), shall take effect on December 1, 2000.”
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10 U.S.C. § 4602
Title 10, Armed Forces
Last Updated
Sep 22, 2026
Release point: 119-110