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legal/us/code/title-41/chapter-45/section-4502.md

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+title: "41 U.S.C. § 4502"
+description: "Payment"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 41
+title_name: "PUBLIC CONTRACTS"
+chapter_number: "45"
+chapter_name: "CONTRACT FINANCING"
+section: "4502"
+citation: "41 U.S.C. § 4502"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
+source: "official"
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+source_identifier: "/us/usc/t41/s4502"
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+tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
+---
+
+# 41 U.S.C. § 4502 - Payment
+
+## Text
+
+(a) Basis for Payment.— When practicable, payments under section 4501 of this title shall be made on any of the following bases:
+
+(1) Performance measured by objective, quantifiable methods such as delivery of acceptable items, work measurement, or statistical process controls.
+
+(2) Accomplishment of events defined in the program management plan.
+
+(3) Other quantifiable measures of results.
+
+(b) Payment Amount.— Payments made under section 4501 of this title may not exceed the unpaid contract price.
+
+(Pub. L. 111–350, § 3, Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3791.)
+
+## Notes
+
+Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 4502(a)41:255(b).June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title III, § 305(b), as added Pub. L. 103–355, title II, § 2051(b), Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3304. 4502(b)41:255(c).June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title III, § 305(c), 63 Stat. 396; July 12, 1952, ch. 703, § 1(m), 66 Stat. 594; Pub. L. 85–800, § 4, Aug. 28, 1958, 72 Stat. 966; Pub. L. 103–355, title II, § 2051(a)(3), (5), Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3304.