28 U.S.C. § 456 : US Code - Section 456: Traveling expenses of justices and judges; official duty stations

Search 28 U.S.C. § 456 : US Code - Section 456: Traveling expenses of justices and judges; official duty stations

(a) The Director of the Administrative Office of the United
States Courts shall pay each justice or judge of the United States,
and each retired justice or judge recalled or designated and
assigned to active duty, while attending court or transacting
official business at a place other than his official duty station
for any continuous period of less than thirty calendar days (1) all
necessary transportation expenses certified by the justice or
judge; and (2) payments for subsistence expenses at rates or in
amounts which the Director establishes, in accordance with
regulations which the Director shall prescribe with the approval of
the Judicial Conference of the United States and after considering
the rates or amounts set by the Administrator of General Services
and the President pursuant to section 5702 of title 5. The Director
of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts shall also
pay each justice or judge of the United States, and each retired
justice or judge recalled or designated and assigned to active
duty, while attending court or transacting official business under
an assignment authorized under chapter 13 of this title which
exceeds in duration a continuous period of thirty calendar days,
all necessary transportation expenses and actual and necessary
expenses of subsistence actually incurred, notwithstanding the
provisions of section 5702 of title 5, in accordance with
regulations which the Director shall prescribe with the approval of
the Judicial Conference of the United States.
(b) The official duty station of the Chief Justice of the United
States, the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, and
the judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the District
of Columbia Circuit, the United States Court of Appeals for the
Federal Circuit, and the United States District Court for the
District of Columbia shall be the District of Columbia.
(c) The official duty station of the judges of the United States
Court of International Trade shall be New York City.
(d) The official duty station of each district judge shall be
that place where a district court holds regular sessions at or near
which the judge performs a substantial portion of his judicial
work, which is nearest the place where he maintains his actual
abode in which he customarily lives.
(e) The official duty station of a circuit judge shall be that
place where a circuit or district court holds regular sessions at
or near which the judge performs a substantial portion of his
judicial work, or that place where the Director provides chambers
to the judge where he performs a substantial portion of his
judicial work, which is nearest the place where he maintains his
actual abode in which he customarily lives.
(f) The official duty station of a retired judge shall be
established in accordance with section 374 of this title.
(g) Each circuit or district judge whose official duty station is
not fixed expressly by this section shall notify the Director of
the Administrative Office of the United States Courts in writing of
his actual abode and official duty station upon his appointment and
from time to time thereafter as his official duty station may
change.