---
kind: "unit"
title: "31"
title_heading: "Money and Finance: Treasury"
key: "subtB/chII/subchA/part240"
level: "part"
label: "Part 240"
heading: "Indorsement and Payment of Checks Drawn on the United States Treasury"
release: "ecfr-current"
date: "2026-08-27"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/31/subtB-chII-subchA-part240"
sections_count: 19
---

# Part 240 — Indorsement and Payment of Checks Drawn on the United States Treasury

Title 31 C.F.R. — Money and Finance: Treasury › Subtitle B — Regulations Relating to Money and Finance › Chapter II — Fiscal Service, Department of the Treasury › Subchapter A — Bureau of the Fiscal Service

## Sections

- [§240.1. Scope of regulations.](/cfr/31/240.1.md)
- [§240.2. Definitions.](/cfr/31/240.2.md)
- [§240.3. Electronic checks and substitute checks.](/cfr/31/240.3.md)
- [§240.4. Presentment guarantees.](/cfr/31/240.4.md)
- [§240.5. Limitations on payment; cancellation and distribution of proceeds of checks.](/cfr/31/240.5.md)
- [§240.6. Provisional credit; first examination; declination; final payment.](/cfr/31/240.6.md)
- [§240.7. Declination protest.](/cfr/31/240.7.md)
- [§240.8. Reclamation of amounts of paid checks.](/cfr/31/240.8.md)
- [§240.9. Reclamation procedures; reclamation protests.](/cfr/31/240.9.md)
- [§240.10. Offset.](/cfr/31/240.10.md)
- [§240.11. Treasury Check Offset.](/cfr/31/240.11.md)
- [§240.12. Processing of checks.](/cfr/31/240.12.md)
- [§240.13. Indorsement by payees.](/cfr/31/240.13.md)
- [§240.14. Checks issued to incompetent payees.](/cfr/31/240.14.md)
- [§240.15. Checks issued to deceased payees.](/cfr/31/240.15.md)
- [§240.16. Checks issued to minor payees.](/cfr/31/240.16.md)
- [§240.17. Powers of attorney.](/cfr/31/240.17.md)
- [§240.18. Lack of authority to shift liability.](/cfr/31/240.18.md)
- [§240.19. Reservation of rights.](/cfr/31/240.19.md)