48 CFR § 13.001 - 13.001 Definitions.

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title: "48 CFR § 13.001 - 13.001   Definitions."
title_number: 48
title_name: "Federal Acquisition Regulations System"
section_number: "13.001"
section_name: "13.001   Definitions."
chapter_number: 1
chapter_name: "FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION"
subchapter_number: "C"
subchapter_name: "CONTRACTING METHODS AND CONTRACT TYPES"
part_number: "13"
part_name: "SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION PROCEDURES"
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authority: "41 U.S.C. 1121(b); 40 U.S.C. 121(c); 10 U.S.C. chapter 4 and 10 U.S.C. chapter 137 legacy provisions (see 10 U.S.C. 3016); and 51 U.S.C. 20113."
regulatory_source: "62 FR 64917, Dec. 9, 1997, unless otherwise noted."
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# 13.001 13.001   Definitions.

As used in this part—

*Authorized individual* means a person who has been granted authority, in accordance with agency procedures, to acquire supplies and services in accordance with this part.

*Governmentwide commercial purchase card* means a purchase card, similar in nature to a commercial credit card, issued to authorized agency personnel to use to acquire and to pay for supplies and services.

*Imprest fund* means a cash fund of a fixed amount established by an advance of funds, without charge to an appropriation, from an agency finance or disbursing officer to a duly appointed cashier, for disbursement as needed from time to time in making payment in cash for relatively small amounts.

*Third party draft* means an agency bank draft, similar to a check, that is used to acquire and to pay for supplies and services. (See Treasury Financial Management Manual, Section 3040.70.)

[62 FR 64917, Dec. 9, 1997, as amended at 66 FR 2128, Jan. 10, 2001]