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§2044 Special Deposit Account

Title 2 › CHAPTER 30 — OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF CAPITOL COMPLEX › SUBCHAPTER III — RESTAURANTS › § 2044

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Treasurer must keep a special account for the Architect of the Capitol to hold receipts for Senate Restaurants from sections 2042–2047, related resolutions, and restaurant operations, and to pay required expenses. From fiscal year 1973 on, Treasury amounts in the "Contingent Expenses of the Senate" item will be paid to the Architect by the Secretary when the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration approves and must be deposited fully.

Full Legal Text

Title 2, §2044

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There is established with the Treasurer of the United States a special deposit account in the name of the Architect of the Capitol for the United States Senate Restaurants, into which shall be deposited all sums received pursuant to sections 2042 to 2047 of this title or any amendatory or supplementary resolutions hereafter adopted and from the operations thereunder and from which shall be disbursed the sums necessary in connection with the exercise of the duties required under sections 2042 to 2047 of this title or any amendatory or supplementary resolutions and the operations thereunder. Any amounts appropriated for fiscal year 1973 and thereafter from the Treasury of the United States, which shall be part of a “Contingent Expenses of the Senate” item for the particular fiscal year involved, shall be paid to the Architect of the Capitol by the Secretary of the Senate at such times and in such sums as the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration may approve. Any such payment shall be deposited by the Architect in full under such special deposit account.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was classified to section 174j–4 of former Title 40, prior to the enactment of Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works, by Pub. L. 107–217, § 1, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1062.

Amendments

1972—Pub. L. 92–342 substituted provision that amounts appropriated for 1973 and thereafter which shall be part of “Contingent Expenses of the Senate” be paid to the Architect of the Capitol, for provision that amounts appropriated for 1972 and thereafter specifically for Senate Restaurants as “Contingent Expenses of the Senate” be paid to Architect of the Capitol. 1971—Pub. L. 92–51 substituted “amounts appropriated for fiscal year 1972 and thereafter” for Senate Restaurants for “amounts hereafter appropriated” for such Restaurants, provision that amounts appropriated specifically for such Restaurants as a Contingent Expense of the Senate item for fiscal year involved shall be paid to Architect of the Capitol, for prior provision declaring amounts appropriated for such Restaurants shall be a part of such Restaurants as a Contingent Expense of Senate for fiscal year involved and for payment of such part to Architect of the Capitol, and provision for approval of payments by Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, including times for payments, for prior provision for payments as appropriations shall specify.

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Citation

2 U.S.C. § 2044

Title 2, The Congress

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102