3 USC § 103 - Traveling expenses

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identifier: "/us/usc/t3/s103"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_legal_evidence"
title: "3 USC § 103 - Traveling expenses"
title_number: 3
title_name: "THE PRESIDENT"
section_number: "103"
section_name: "Traveling expenses"
chapter_number: 2
chapter_name: "OFFICE AND COMPENSATION OF PRESIDENT"
positive_law: true
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-03-26"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 678; Pub. L. 95–570, § 4, Nov. 2, 1978, 92 Stat. 2450.)"
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# § 103. Traveling expenses

There may be expended for or on account of the traveling expenses of the President of the United States such sum as Congress may from time to time appropriate, not exceeding $100,000 per annum, such sum when appropriated to be expended in the discretion of the President and accounted for on his certificate solely.

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**Source Credit**: (June 25, 1948, ch. 644, 62 Stat. 678; Pub. L. 95–570, § 4, Nov. 2, 1978, 92 Stat. 2450.)

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1978— substituted “$100,000” for “$40,000”.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1978 Amendment

Amendment by  applicable to any fiscal year beginning on or after , see , set out as a note under .