§ 3532 - Notification of account deficiencies

CHAPTER 35— ACCOUNTING AND COLLECTION › SUBCHAPTER III— AUDITING AND SETTLING ACCOUNTS

An accounting official discovering a deficiency in an account of an official of the United States Government having custody of public money shall notify the head of the agency having jurisdiction of the official of the kind and amount of the deficiency.

Notes

Historical and Revision Notes Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 353231:497a.June 6, 1972, Pub. L. 92–310, § 260, 86 Stat. 215.

The word “official” is substituted for “officers”, and the word “Government” is added, for consistency in the revised title and with other titles of the United States Code. The words “having custody of public money” are substituted for “or in the accounts of any officer disbursing or chargeable with public money” for clarity and consistency. The words “immediately” and “the affairs of . . . or officer” are omitted as surplus.