2016 US Code
Title 40 - Public Buildings, Property, and Works
Subtitle VI - Miscellaneous
Chapter 173 - Government Losses in Shipment
Sec. 17301 - Definitions

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Citation 40 U.S.C. § 17301 (2016)
Section Name §17301. Definitions
Section Text

In this chapter, the following definitions apply:

(1) Replacement.—The term "replacement" means payment, reimbursement, replacement, or duplication or the expenses incident to payment, reimbursement, replacement, or duplication.

(2) Shipment.—The term "shipment"—

(A) means the transportation, or the effecting of transportation, of valuables, without limitation as to the means or facilities used or by which the transportation is effected or the person to whom it is made; and

(B) includes shipments made to any executive department, independent establishment, agency, wholly owned or mixed-ownership Government corporation, officer, or employee of the Federal Government, or any person acting on behalf of, or at the direction of, the executive department, independent establishment, agency, wholly or partly owned Government corporation, officer, or employee.


(3) Valuables.—

(A) Definition.—The term "valuables" means any articles or things or representatives of value—

(i) in which the Government, its executive departments, independent establishments, and agencies, including wholly owned Government corporations, and officers and employees of the Government or its executive departments, independent establishments, and agencies while acting in their official capacity, have any interest, or in connection with which they have any obligation or responsibility; and

(ii) which the Secretary of the Treasury declares to be valuables within the meaning of this chapter.


(B) Requirement for declaring articles or things valuable.—The Secretary shall not declare articles or things that are lost, destroyed, or damaged in the course of shipment to be valuables unless the Secretary determines that replacement of the articles or things in accordance with the procedure established in this chapter would be in the public interest.


(4) Wholly owned government corporation.—The term "wholly owned Government corporation"—

(A) means any corporation, regardless of the law under which it is incorporated, the capital of which is entirely owned by the Government; and

(B) includes the authorized officers, employees, and agents of the corporation.

Source Credit

(Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1280.)

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Source (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large)
17301(1) 40:729(d). July 8, 1937, ch. 444, §7, 50 Stat. 480; Aug. 10, 1939, ch. 665, §3, 53 Stat. 1359.
17301(2) 40:729(b).
17301(3) 40:729(a).
17301(4) 40:729(c).

In this chapter, the words "wholly owned Government corporation" are substituted for "wholly owned corporation" for consistency in the revised title and with other titles of the United States Code.

In clause (3)(A)(i), the words "direct or indirect" are omitted as unnecessary.

In clause (4)(A), the words "or laws" are omitted because of 1:1. The words "directly or indirectly" are omitted as unnecessary.

In clause (4)(B), the word "duly" is omitted as unnecessary.

Publication Title United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 4, Title 40 - PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
Category Bills and Statutes
Collection United States Code
SuDoc Class Number Y 1.2/5:
Contained Within Title 40 - PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
SUBTITLE VI - MISCELLANEOUS
CHAPTER 173 - GOVERNMENT LOSSES IN SHIPMENT
Sec. 17301 - Definitions
Contains section 17301
Date 2016
Laws In Effect As Of Date January 6, 2017
Positive Law Yes
Disposition standard
Statutes at Large References 50 Stat. 480
53 Stat. 1359
116 Stat. 1280
Public Law References Public Law 107-217
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