[Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 104th Congress]
[104th Congress]
[House Document 103-342]
[Rules of the House of Representatives]
[Pages 797-798]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



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                                Rule XLV.


               PROHIBITION OF UNOFFICIAL OFFICE ACCOUNTS.

  1. No Member may maintain or have maintained for his use an unofficial 
office account.



Sec. 941.

  2. After the  date of adoption of this rule, no 
funds may be paid into any unofficial office account.


  3. Notwithstanding any other provision of this rule, if an amount from 
the Official Expenses Allowance of a Member is paid into the House 
Recording Studio revolving fund for telecommunications satellite 
services, the Member may accept reimbursement from non-political 
entities in that amount for transmission to the Clerk of the House of 
Representatives for credit to the Official Expenses Allowance.

  4. For purposes of this rule--

  (a) the term ``unofficial office account'' means an account or 
repository into which funds are received for the purpose of defraying 
otherwise unreimbursed expenses allowable under section 162(a) of the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1954 as ordinary and necessary in the operation 
of a congressional office, and includes any newsletter fund referred to 
in section 527(g) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954; and


  (b) the term ``Member'' means any Member of, Delegate to, or Resident 
Commissioner in, the House of Representatives.


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charges attributable to nonpolitical organizations receiving the 
transmissions (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1991, p. ----).
  This rule was adopted in the 95th Congress (H. Res. 287, Mar. 2, 1977, 
pp. 5933-53). It was amended in the 102d Congress to permit Members to 
receive reimbursements to their expense allowances for recording studio 




  For an in depth discussion of this rule prepared by the Committee on 
Standards of Official Conduct, see the House Ethics Manual (102d Cong., 
2d Sess.).