Page 23 TITLE 3—THE PRESIDENT § 110

FORMER PRESIDENT’S OFFICE STAFF

See note set out under section 102 of this title.

SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS

This section is referred to in title 26 section 3121; title

42 section 410.

§ 108. Assistance to the President for unanticipated needs

(a) There is authorized to be appropriated to

the President an amount not to exceed $1,000,000

each fiscal year to enable the President, in his

discretion, to meet unanticipated needs for the

furtherance of the national interest, security, or

defense, including personnel needs and needs for

services described in section 3109(b) of title 5,

and administrative expenses related thereto,

without regard to any provision of law regulating the employment or compensation of persons

in the Government service or regulating expenditures of Government funds.

(b) The President shall transmit a report to

each House of the Congress for each fiscal year

beginning on or after the effective date of this

subsection which sets forth the purposes for

which expenditures were made under this section for such fiscal year and the amount expended for each such purpose. Each such report

shall be transmitted no later than 60 days after

the close of the fiscal year covered by such report.

(c) An individual may not be paid under the

authority of this section at a rate of pay in excess of the rate of basic pay then currently paid

for level II of the Executive Schedule of section

5313 of title 5.

(Added Pub. L. 95–570, §2(a), Nov. 2, 1978, 92 Stat.

2449.)

REFERENCES IN TEXT

For the effective date of this subsection, referred to

in subsec. (b), see section 6(a) of Pub. L. 95–570, set out

as an Effective Date of 1978 Amendment note under section 102 of this title.

PRIOR PROVISIONS

A prior section 108, act June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat.

679, directing the Quartermaster General of the Army

to provide suitable accommodations for the horses, carriages, and other vehicles of the President and of the

Executive Office, was repealed by act June 28, 1950, ch.

383, title IV, §401(j), 64 Stat. 271.

Insofar as prior section 108, by virtue of a former proviso in section 401 of act June 28, 1950, continued to remain in effect to the extent that it was applicable to

the Department of the Air Force, and the United States

Air Force, it was additionally repealed by act Sept. 19,

1951, ch. 407, title IV, §401(a)(1), 65 Stat. 333.

Act Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 654, §1(2), 65 Stat. 701, repealed

that part of act Mar. 4, 1911, ch. 285, §1, 36 Stat. 1404,

from which prior section 108, as enacted by act June 25,

1948, ch. 644, §1, 62 Stat. 672, had been derived. That

part of the 1911 act had previously been repealed by section 3 of the 1948 act.

EFFECTIVE DATE

Section applicable to any fiscal year beginning on or

after Oct. 1, 1978, see section 6(a) of Pub. L. 95–570, set

out as an Effective Date of 1978 Amendment note under

section 102 of this title.

§ 109. Public property in and belonging to the Executive Residence at the White House

The steward, housekeeper, or such other employee of the Executive Residence at the White

House as the President may designate, shall

under the direction of the President, have the

charge and custody of and be responsible for the

plate, furniture, and public property therein. A

complete inventory, in proper books, shall be

made annually in the month of June, under the

direction of the Director of the National Park

Service, of all the public property in and belonging to the Executive Residence at the White

House, showing when purchased, its cost, condition, and final disposition. This inventory shall

be submitted to the President for his approval,

and shall then be kept for reference in the office

of the Director of the National Park Service,

which shall furnish a copy thereof to the steward, housekeeper, or other employee responsible

for the property.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 679; Pub. L. 92–310,

title II, §201, June 6, 1972, 86 Stat. 202; Pub. L.

95–570, §5(b)(1), Nov. 2, 1978, 92 Stat. 2450.)

AMENDMENTS

1978—Pub. L. 95–570 substituted in section catchline

‘‘the Executive Residence at the White House’’ for ‘‘Executive Mansion’’ and in text ‘‘Executive Residence at

the White House’’ for ‘‘Executive Mansion’’ in two

places.

1972—Pub. L. 92–310 struck out provisions which required a bond in the sum of $10,000 from the person having charge and custody of the plate, furniture, and public property.

EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1978 AMENDMENT

Amendment by Pub. L. 95–570 applicable to any fiscal

year beginning on or after Oct. 1, 1978, see section 6(a)

of Pub. L. 95–570, set out as a note under section 102 of

this title.

TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS

Functions of all other officers of Department of the

Interior and functions of all agencies and employees of

such Department, with two exceptions, transferred to

Secretary of the Interior, with power vested in him to

authorize their performance or performance of any of

his functions by any of such officers, agencies, and employees, by 1950 Reorg. Plan No. 3, §§1, 2, eff. May 24,

1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix

to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

§ 110. Furniture for the Executive Residence at

the White House

All furniture purchased for the use of the Executive Residence at the White House shall be,

as far as practicable, of domestic manufacture.

With a view to conserving in the Executive Residence at the White House the best specimens of

the early American furniture and furnishings,

and for the purpose of maintaining the interior

of the Executive Residence at the White House

in keeping with its original design, the Director

of the National Park Service is authorized and

directed, with the approval of the President, to

accept donations of furniture and furnishings for

use in the Executive Residence at the White

House, all such articles thus donated to become

the property of the United States and to be accounted for as such. The said Director of the National Park Service is further authorized and directed, with the approval of the President, to

appoint a temporary committee composed of one

representative of the American Federation of

Arts, one representative of the National Commission of Fine Arts, one representative of the