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Title 13, CensusRelease 119-102

§26 Transportation by Contract

Title 13 › CHAPTER 1 — ADMINISTRATION › SUBCHAPTER II — OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES › § 26

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary may rent transportation for field employees. Inside the continental United States the rentals cannot be motorcycles, automobiles, or airplanes; outside the continental United States any kind of transport, even if owned by the employee, may be rented. Rentals must use local prevailing rates and ignore section 4 of the Travel Expense Act of 1949 (5 U.S.C. 837). Within the continental United States such rentals are allowed only when they are safer, more economical, or more advantageous to the Government than the employee’s motorcycle, automobile, or airplane for conducting the census.

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Title 13, §26

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The Secretary may contract with field employees for the rental and use within the continental limits of the United States of means of transportation, other than motorcycle, automobile, or airplane, and for the rental and use outside of the continental United States of any means of transportation, which means may be owned by the field employee. Such rental contracts shall be made without regard to section 4 of the Travel Expense Act of 1949, as amended (5 U.S.C. 837). The rentals shall be at rates equivalent to the prevailing rental rates of the locality. The rental contracts within the continental United States may be entered into only when the use by the field employee of such other means of transportation is safer, more economical, or more advantageous to the Government than use of his motorcycle, automobile, or airplane in conducting the census.

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section 4 of the Travel Expense Act of 1949, as amended (5 U.S.C. 837), referred to in text, was repealed by Pub. L. 89–554, § 8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 632, and reenacted by the first section thereof as section 5704 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

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Citation

13 U.S.C. § 26

Title 13, Census

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102