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title: "37 U.S.C. § 461"
description: "Relationship to other travel and transportation authorities"
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title_number: 37
title_name: "PAY AND ALLOWANCES OF THE UNIFORMED SERVICES"
chapter_number: "8"
chapter_name: "TRAVEL AND TRANSPORTATION ALLOWANCES"
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citation: "37 U.S.C. § 461"
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release_point: "119-100"
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# 37 U.S.C. § 461 - Relationship to other travel and transportation authorities

## Text

An authorized traveler may not be paid travel and transportation allowances or receive travel-in-kind and transportation-in-kind, or a combination thereof, under both subchapter I and subchapter III for official travel performed under a single or related travel and transportation order or authorization by the administering Secretary.

(Added Pub. L. 112–81, div. A, title VI, § 631(b), Dec. 31, 2011, 125 Stat. 1459.)