§ 58a-2. — Certification of telecommunications equipment and services as official.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 2USC58a-2]
TITLE 2--THE CONGRESS
CHAPTER 3--COMPENSATION AND ALLOWANCES OF MEMBERS
Sec. 58a-2. Certification of telecommunications equipment and
services as official
(a) Regulations issued by Committee on Rules and Administration
Subject to such regulations as may hereafter be issued by the
Committee on Rules and Administration of the Senate, the Sergeant at
Arms shall have the authority, with respect to telephone equipment and
services provided to any user on a reimbursable basis (including repair
or replacement), solely for the purposes of this section, to make such
certification as may be necessary to establish such services and
equipment as official, issue invoices in conjunction therewith, and
receive payment for such services and equipment by certification,
voucher, or otherwise.
(b) Equipment and services provided on reimbursable basis
For purposes of sections 58a-1 to 58a-3 of this title, telephone
equipment and services provided to any user for which payment, prior to
October 1, 1987, was not authorized from the contingent fund of the
Senate shall, on and after October 1, 1987, be considered telephone
equipment and services provided on a reimbursable basis for which
payment may be obtained from such fund in accordance with subsection (a)
of this section.
(c) Establishment of reasonable charges
Subject to the approval of the Committee on Rules and
Administration, the Sergeant at Arms may establish reasonable charges
for telephone equipment and services provided to any user which may be
in addition to that regularly authorized by the Committee.
(d) Disposition of moneys received
All moneys, derived from payments for telephone equipment and
services provided from funds from the Appropriation Account within the
contingent fund of the Senate for ``Contingent Expenses, Sergeant at
Arms and Doorkeeper of the Senate'' under the line item for
Telecommunications (including receipts from carriers and others for loss
or damage to such services or equipment for which repair or replacement
has been provided by the Sergeant at Arms), and all other moneys
received by the Sergeant at Arms as charges or commissions for telephone
services, shall be deposited in and made a part of such Appropriation
Account and under such line item, and shall be available for expenditure
or obligation, or both, in like manner and subject to the same
limitations as any other moneys in such account and under such line
item.
(e) Committee authority to classify or reclassify equipment and services
Nothing in sections 58a-1 to 58a-3 of this title shall be construed
as limiting or otherwise affecting the authority of the Committee on
Rules and Administration of the Senate to classify or reclassify
telephone equipment and services provided to any user as equipment or
services for which reimbursement may or may not be required.
(Pub. L. 100-123, Sec. 2, Oct. 5, 1987, 101 Stat. 794; Pub. L. 101-163,
title I, Sec. 3, Nov. 21, 1989, 103 Stat. 1044.)
Amendments
1989--Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 101-163 inserted ``and all other moneys
received by the Sergeant at Arms as charges or commissions for telephone
services,'' after ``by the Sergeant at Arms),''.
Effective Date
Section effective Oct. 1, 1987, see section 4 of Pub. L. 100-123,
set out as a note under section 58a-1 of this title.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 58a-1, 58a-3 of this title.
