    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 105th Congress]
    [105th Congress]
    [House Document 104-272]
    [Rules of the House of Representatives]
    [Pages 832-833]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                    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.

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    cording 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.
      3. Notwithstanding any other provision of this rule, if an amount from
    the Official Expenses Allowance of a Member is paid into the House Re-

      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.

      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
    charges attributable to nonpolitical organizations receiving the
    transmissions (H. Res. 5, Jan. 3, 1991, p. 39).

      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.).