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[78 STAT. 155]
PUBLIC LAW 88-000—MMMM. DD, 1964
[78 STAT. 155]

78 STAT. ]

PUBLIC LAW88-277-MAR. 7, 1964

authorized for persons employed intermittently or for persons serving without compensation by section 5 of the Administrative Expenses Act of 1946, as amended (5 U.S.C. 73b-2), as may be appropriate; (5) Communications services found necessary by the Presidentelect or Vice-President-elect; (6) Payment of expenses for necessary printing and binding, notwithstanding the Act of January 12, 1895, and the Act of March 1, 1919, as amended (44 U.S.C. I l l); (7) Reimbursement to the postal revenues in amounts equivalent to the postage that would otherwise be payable on mail matter referred to in subsection (d) of this section. (b) The Administrator shall expend no funds for the provision of services and facilities under this Act in connection with any obligations incurred by the President-elect or Vice-President-elect before the day following the date of the general elections held to determine the electors of President and Vice President in accordance with title 3, United States Code, sections 1 and 2, or after the inauguration of the President-elect as President and the inauguration of the VicePresident-elect as Vice President. (c) The terms "President-elect" and "Vice-President-elect" as used in this Act shall mean such persons as are the apparent successful candidates for the office of President and Vice President, respectively, as ascertained by the Administrator following the general elections held to determine the electors of President and Vice President in accordance with title 3, United States Code, sections 1 and 2. (d) Each President-elect shall be entitled to conveyance within the United States and its territories and possessions of all mail matter, including airmail, sent by him in connection with his preparations for the assumption of official duties as President, and such mail matter shall be transmitted as penalty mail as provided in title 39, United States Code, section 4152. Each Vic«-President-elect shall be entitled to conveyance within the United States and its territories and possessions of all mail matter, including airmail, sent by him under his written autograph signature in connection with his preparations for the assumption of official duties as Vice President. (e) Each President-elect and Vice-President-elect may designate to the Administrator an assistant authorized to make on his behalf such designations or findings of necessity as may be required in connection with the services and facilities to be provided under this Act. Not more than 10 per centum of the total expenditures under this Act for any President-elect or Vice-President-elect may be made upon the basis of a certificate by him or the assistant designated by him pursuant to this section that such expenditures are dassitied and are essential to the national security, and that they accord with the provisions of subsections (a), (b), and (d) of this section. (f) In the case Avhere the President-elect is the incumbent President or in the case where the Vice-President-elect is the incmnbent Vice President, there shall be no expenditures of fluids for the pr()\ ision of services and facilities to such incumbent under this Act, and any funds appropriated for such y)urposes shall be returned to the general funds of the Treasury.

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60 Stat. 808; 75 Stat. 339, 340. Communications services. Printing and binding. Postage.

Restriction.

62 Stat. 672.

Definitions.

P e n a l t y mail.

74 Stat. 660.

Assistant, designation.

Nonapplicability.