31 U.S.C. § 328 — Accounts and payments of former disbursing officials
submitted 44 years ago by Pub. L. 97-258 to r/title-31-MONEY-AND-FINANCE · 156 words · no verdicts yet
A Treasury disbursing official may die, resign, or leave office. A designated deputy can then keep running the accounts and payments for about two more months. Only that deputy is liable for actions taken this way.
(a) If a chief disbursing official, or the director of a disbursing center, of the Department of the Treasury dies, resigns, or leaves office, the deputy chief disbursing official (or deputy director) that the Treasury Secretary designates can keep the accounts and payments going in the former official's name. This can continue through the last day of the second month after the month the death, resignation, or departure happened. Those accounts and payments are still allowed, audited, and settled the normal way the law requires. The Secretary must honor checks signed in the former official's name just as if that person were still in office.
(b) Only the designated deputy chief or deputy director is liable for actions taken in the former official's name under (a).
If a chief disbursing official or a director of a disbursing center of the Department of the Treasury dies, resigns, or leaves office, the deputy chief disbursing official or the deputy director of the disbursing center designated by the Secretary of the Treasury may continue the accounts and payments in the name of the former disbursing official or director through the last day of the 2d month after the month in which the death, resignation, or separation occurs. The accounts and payments shall be allowed, audited, and settled as provided by law. The Secretary shall honor checks signed in the name of the former disbursing official or director in the same way as if the former disbursing official or director had continued in office.
Only the deputy chief or deputy director designated under subsection (a) of this section is liable for actions taken in the name of the former disbursing official under subsection (a).
Source credit: (Pub. L. 97–258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 883.)
- 1982Enacted · Pub. L. 97-258 · 96 Stat. 883
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 97-258 on 1982-09-13.
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