**(a)** The official having administrative control of an appropriation available to the legislative branch, the judicial branch, the United States International Trade Commission, or the District of Columbia government, and, subject to the approval of the President, the head of each executive agency (except the Commission) shall prescribe by regulation a system of administrative control not inconsistent with accounting procedures prescribed under law. The system shall be designed to—
(1) restrict obligations or expenditures from each appropriation to the amount of apportionments or reapportionments of the appropriation; and
(2) enable the official or the head of the executive agency to fix responsibility for an obligation or expenditure exceeding an apportionment or reapportionment.
**(b)** To have a simplified system for administratively dividing appropriations, the head of each executive agency (except the Commission) shall work toward the objective of financing each operating unit, at the highest practical level, from not more than one administrative division for each appropriation affecting the unit.
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**(a)** The official having administrative control of an appropriation available to the legislative branch, the judicial branch, the United States International Trade Commission, or the District of Columbia government, and, subject to the approval of the President, the head of each executive agency (except the Commission) shall prescribe by regulation a system of administrative control not inconsistent with accounting procedures prescribed under law. The system shall be designed to—
(1) restrict obligations or expenditures from each appropriation to the amount of apportionments or reapportionments of the appropriation; and
(2) enable the official or the head of the executive agency to fix responsibility for an obligation or expenditure exceeding an apportionment or reapportionment.
**(b)** To have a simplified system for administratively dividing appropriations, the head of each executive agency (except the Commission) shall work toward the objective of financing each operating unit, at the highest practical level, from not more than one administrative division for each appropriation affecting the unit.
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§ 1514. Administrative division of apportion-
ments
(a) The official having administrative control
of an appropriation available to the legislative
branch, the judicial branch, the United States
International Trade Commission, or the District
of Columbia government, and, subject to the ap-
proval of the President, the head of each execu-
tive agency (except the Commission) shall pre-
scribe by regulation a system of administrative
control not inconsistent with accounting proce-
dures prescribed under law. The system shall be
designed to—
(1) restrict obligations or expenditures from
each appropriation to the amount of appor-
tionments or reapportionments of the appro-
priation; and
(2) enable the official or the head of the ex-
ecutive agency to fix responsibility for an ob-
ligation or expenditure exceeding an appor-
tionment or reapportionment.
(b) To have a simplified system for adminis-
tratively dividing appropriations, the head of
each executive agency (except the Commission)
shall work toward the objective of financing
each operating unit, at the highest practical
level, from not more than one administrative di-
vision for each appropriation affecting the unit.
(Pub. L. 97–258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 930.)
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
Revised
Section
Source (U.S. Code)
Source (Statutes at Large)
1514(a) .....
31:665(g)(2d sen-
tence).
R.S.
§ 3679(g)(2d
sentence);
Mar. 3, 1905, ch. 1484, § 4(1st
par.), 33 Stat. 1257; Feb. 27,
1906, ch. 510, § 3, 34 Stat. 48;
restated Sept. 6, 1950, ch.
896,
§ 1211,
64
Stat.
767;
Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1970,
eff. July 1, 1970, § 102(a), 84
Stat. 2085; Jan. 3, 1975, Pub.
L. 93–618, § 175(a)(2), 88 Stat.
2011.
1514(b) .....
31:665(g)(last sen-
tence).
R.S. § 3679(g)(last sentence);
added Aug.