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legal/us/code/title-38/chapter-7/section-728.md

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+type: "LegalText"
+title: "38 U.S.C. § 728"
+description: "Misuse of Department purchase cards"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 38
+title_name: "VETERANS’ BENEFITS"
+chapter_number: "7"
+chapter_name: "EMPLOYEES"
+section: "728"
+citation: "38 U.S.C. § 728"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
+source: "official"
+source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc38@119-100.zip"
+source_identifier: "/us/usc/t38/s728"
+source_file: "data/legal/raw/us/code/title-38/usc38.xml"
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+retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
+confidence: "official"
+tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
+---
+
+# 38 U.S.C. § 728 - Misuse of Department purchase cards
+
+## Text
+
+(a) In General.— (1) The Secretary shall prohibit any employee of the Department who the Secretary or the Inspector General of the Department determines has knowingly misused a purchase card from serving as a purchase card holder or approving official.
+
+(2) Such a prohibition shall be in addition to any other applicable penalty.
+
+(b) Misuse.— For purposes of this section, the term “misuse” means—
+
+(1) splitting purchases;
+
+(2) exceeding applicable purchase card limits or purchase thresholds;
+
+(3) purchasing any unauthorized item;
+
+(4) using a purchase card without being an authorized purchase card holder; or
+
+(5) violating ethics standards.
+
+(Added Pub. L. 115–407, title V, § 501(a), Dec. 31, 2018, 132 Stat. 5376.)