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§7143 Certification

Title 16 › Chapter 90— SECURE RURAL SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY SELF-DETERMINATION › Subchapter III— COUNTY FUNDS › § 7143

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

By February 1 after a county spends any county funds, the county must certify to the Secretary that the money was used for the allowed purposes and report the amounts and how they were spent. The Secretary will review those certifications.

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Title 16, §7143

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(a)Not later than February 1 of the year after the year in which any county funds were expended by a participating county, the appropriate official of the participating county shall submit to the Secretary concerned a certification that the county funds expended in the applicable year have been used for the uses authorized under section 7142(a) of this title, including a description of the amounts expended and the uses for which the amounts were expended.
(b)The Secretary concerned shall review the certifications submitted under subsection (a) as the Secretary concerned determines to be appropriate.

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Prior Provisions

A prior section 303 of Pub. L. 106–393 was set out in a note under section 500 of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 110–343, div. C, title VI, § 601(a), Oct. 3, 2008, 122 Stat. 3893.

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16 U.S.C. § 7143

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Apr 5, 2026

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