§17302 — Title 40 Public Buildings, Property, and Works | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary of the Treasury and the U.S. Postal Service must, with the President's approval, make rules to reduce loss or damage when federal departments, agencies, government-owned corporations, officers, or employees ship valuables. All those entities and anyone acting for them must follow the rules when shipping valuables.

Title 40, §17302

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(a)With the approval of the President, the Secretary of the Treasury and the United States Postal Service jointly shall prescribe regulations governing the shipment of valuables by an executive department, independent establishment, agency, wholly owned Government corporation, officer, or employee of the Federal Government, with a view to minimizing the risk of loss and destruction of, and damage to, valuables in shipment.

(b)Each executive department, independent establishment, agency, wholly owned Government corporation, officer, and employee of the Government, and each person acting for, or at the direction of, the executive department, independent establishment, agency, wholly owned Government corporation, officer, or employee, must comply with the regulations when making any shipment of valuables.

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Historical and Revision Notes

Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 1730240:721.July 8, 1937, ch. 444, § 1, 50 Stat. 479. In subsection (a), the words “As soon as practicable after July 8, 1937” are omitted as obsolete. The words “United States Postal Service” are substituted for “Postmaster General” in section 1 of the Government Losses in Shipment Act (ch. 444, 50 Stat. 479) because of section 4(a) of the Postal Reorganization Act (Public Law 91–375, 84 Stat. 773). In subsection (b), the words “After the

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of such

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, which shall be not more than thirty days after their issuance” are omitted as obsolete.

Executive Documents

Delegation of Functions For power of Secretary of the Treasury and United States Postal Service to prescribe, without approval of President,

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under section 721 of former Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works (which was repealed and reenacted as this section by Pub. L. 107–217, §§ 1, 6(b), Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1062, 1304), see section 3(a) of Ex. Ord. No. 10289, Sept. 17, 1951, 16 F.R. 9499, set out as a note under section 301 of Title 3, The President.

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