§ 1555. — Immigration Service expenses.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 8USC1555]
TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
CHAPTER 13--IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE
SUBCHAPTER I--ORGANIZATION
Sec. 1555. Immigration Service expenses
Appropriations now or hereafter provided for the Immigration and
Naturalization Service shall be available for payment of (a) hire of
privately owned horses for use on official business, under contract with
officers or employees of the Service; (b) pay of interpreters and
translators who are not citizens of the United States; (c) distribution
of citizenship textbooks to aliens without cost to such aliens; (d)
payment of allowances (at such rate as may be specified from time to
time in the appropriation Act involved) to aliens, while held in custody
under the immigration laws, for work performed; and (e) when so
specified in the appropriation concerned, expenses of unforeseen
emergencies of a confidential character, to be expended under the
direction of the Attorney General, who shall make a certificate of the
amount of any such expenditure as he may think it advisable not to
specify, and every such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher
for the sum therein expressed to have been expended.
(July 28, 1950, ch. 503, Sec. 6, 64 Stat. 380.)
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 341d of Title 5 prior to
the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization
and Employees, by Pub. L. 89-554, Sec. 1, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 378.
Abolition of Immigration and Naturalization Service and Transfer of
Functions
For abolition of Immigration and Naturalization Service, transfer of
functions, and treatment of related references, see note set out under
section 1551 of this title.
