Unauthorized employment and disposition of lapsed appropriations
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Whoever—
(1) violates the provision of section 3103 of title 5 that an individual may be employed in the civil service in an Executive department at the seat of Government only for services actually rendered in connection with and for the purposes of the appropriation from which he is paid; or
(2) violates the provision of section 5501 of title 5 that money accruing from lapsed salaries or from unused appropriations for salaries shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States;
shall be or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
History: (Added Pub. L. 89–554, §3(d), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 608 (PDF, 47 MB); amended Pub. L. 104–294, title VI, §601(a)(8), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3498; Pub. L. 107–273, div. B, title III, §3002(a)(3), Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1805.)
Simplified explanation
It is a federal crime to violate the rule that civil service workers in Washington, D.C. Executive departments may be employed only for work tied to the funding that pays them. It is also a crime to violate the rule that money from unpaid salaries or unused salary funds must be returned to the Treasury.