§ 68-3. — Separate accounts for "Secretary of the Senate" and for "Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate"; establishment within Senate contingent fund; inclusion of funds in existing accounts.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 2USC68-3]
TITLE 2--THE CONGRESS
CHAPTER 4--OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES OF SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Sec. 68-3. Separate accounts for ``Secretary of the Senate'' and
for ``Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate'';
establishment within Senate contingent fund; inclusion of funds
in existing accounts
(a) Effective October 1, 1983--
(1) there shall be, within the contingent fund of the Senate, a
separate account for the ``Secretary of the Senate'', and a separate
account for the ``Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate'';
(2) the account for ``Automobiles and Maintenance'', within the
contingent fund of the Senate, is abolished, and funds for the
purchase, lease, exchange, maintenance, and operation of vehicles
for the Senate shall be included in the separate account,
established by paragraph (1), for the ``Sergeant at Arms and
Doorkeeper of the Senate''; and
(3) the account for ``Postage Stamps'', within the contingent
fund of the Senate, is abolished; and funds for special delivery
postage of the Office of the Secretary of the Senate shall be
included in the separate account, established by paragraph (1), for
the ``Secretary of the Senate''; funds for special delivery postage
of the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate shall be
included in the separate account, established by paragraph (1), for
the ``Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate''; and postage
stamps for the Secretaries for the Majority and the Minority and
other offices and officers of the Senate, as authorized by law,
shall be included in the account for ``Miscellaneous Items'', within
the contingent fund of the Senate.
(b) Any provision of law which was enacted, or any Senate resolution
which was agreed to, prior to October 1, 1983, and which authorizes
moneys in the contingent fund of the Senate to be expended by or for the
use of the Secretary of the Senate, or his office (whether generally or
from a specified account within such fund) may on and after October 1,
1983, be construed to authorize such moneys to be expended from the
separate account, within such fund, established by subsection (a)(1) of
this section for the ``Secretary of the Senate''; and any provision of
law which was enacted prior to October 1, 1983, and which authorizes
moneys in the contingent fund of the Senate to be expended by or for the
use of the Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate, or his office
(whether generally or from a specified account within such fund) may on
and after October 1, 1983, be construed to authorize such moneys to be
expended from the separate account, within such fund, established by
subsection (a)(1) of this section for the ``Sergeant at Arms and
Doorkeeper of the Senate''.
(Pub. L. 98-51, title I, Sec. 103, July 14, 1983, 97 Stat. 266.)
Codification
Section is from the Congressional Operations Appropriation Act,
1984, which is title I of the Legislative Branch Appropriation, 1984.
