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Ingested titles 12–51 and 54 from OLRC USLM XML @119-100 (the whole Code now, uniform edition; Title 53 is reserved/empty). LegalText 11,221 -> 59,740; repo total 105,704 records. Deterministic (byte-identical rerun, verified on Title 42's 8,356 sections); make check green. make legal-us-code default now covers every title. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "LegalText"
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title: "38 U.S.C. § 728"
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description: "Misuse of Department purchase cards"
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jurisdiction: "us"
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corpus: "united_states_code"
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kind: "code_section"
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title_number: 38
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title_name: "VETERANS’ BENEFITS"
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chapter_number: "7"
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chapter_name: "EMPLOYEES"
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section: "728"
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citation: "38 U.S.C. § 728"
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status: "current"
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release_point: "119-100"
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release_date: "2026-06-26"
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source: "official"
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source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc38@119-100.zip"
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---
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# 38 U.S.C. § 728 - Misuse of Department purchase cards
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## Text
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(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.
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(2) Such a prohibition shall be in addition to any other applicable penalty.
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(b) Misuse.— For purposes of this section, the term “misuse” means—
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(1) splitting purchases;
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(2) exceeding applicable purchase card limits or purchase thresholds;
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(3) purchasing any unauthorized item;
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(4) using a purchase card without being an authorized purchase card holder; or
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(5) violating ethics standards.
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(Added Pub. L. 115–407, title V, § 501(a), Dec. 31, 2018, 132 Stat. 5376.)
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