50 U.S.C. § 403j : US Code - Section 403J: Central Intelligence Agency; appropriations; expenditures

Search 50 U.S.C. § 403j : US Code - Section 403J: Central Intelligence Agency; appropriations; expenditures

(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, sums made
available to the Agency by appropriation or otherwise may be
expended for purposes necessary to carry out its functions,
including -
(1) personal services, including personal services without
regard to limitations on types of persons to be employed, and
rent at the seat of government and elsewhere; health-service
program as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 7901); rental of news-
reporting services; purchase or rental and operation of
photographic, reproduction, cryptographic, duplication, and
printing machines, equipment, and devices, and radio-receiving
and radio-sending equipment and devices, including telegraph and
teletype equipment; purchase, maintenance, operation, repair, and
hire of passenger motor vehicles, and aircraft, and vessels of
all kinds; subject to policies established by the Director,
transportation of officers and employees of the Agency in
Government-owned automotive equipment between their domiciles and
places of employment, where such personnel are engaged in work
which makes such transportation necessary, and transportation in
such equipment, to and from school, of children of Agency
personnel who have quarters for themselves and their families at
isolated stations outside the continental United States where
adequate public or private transportation is not available;
printing and binding; purchase, maintenance, and cleaning of
firearms, including purchase, storage, and maintenance of
ammunition; subject to policies established by the Director,
expenses of travel in connection with, and expenses incident to
attendance at meetings of professional, technical, scientific,
and other similar organizations when such attendance would be a
benefit in the conduct of the work of the Agency; association and
library dues; payment of premiums or costs of surety bonds for
officers or employees without regard to the provisions of section
14 (!1) of title 6; payment of claims pursuant to title 28;
acquisition of necessary land and the clearing of such land;
construction of buildings and facilities without regard to 36
Stat. 699; 40 U.S.C. 259, 267; (!1) repair, rental, operation,
and maintenance of buildings, utilities, facilities, and
appurtenances; and
(2) supplies, equipment, and personnel and contractual services
otherwise authorized by law and regulations, when approved by the
Director.
(b) The sums made available to the Agency may be expended without
regard to the provisions of law and regulations relating to the
expenditure of Government funds; and for objects of a confidential,
extraordinary, or emergency nature, such expenditures to be
accounted for solely on the certificate of the Director and every
such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the
amount therein certified.