---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 57c–2"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "57c–2"
heading: "Reimbursement of expenses"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/57c-2"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — Federal Trade Commission; Promotion of Export Trade and Prevention of Unfair Methods of Competition"
  - "Subchapter I — Federal Trade Commission"
---

# §57c–2. Reimbursement of expenses


The Commission may accept payment or reimbursement, in cash or in kind, from a domestic or foreign law enforcement agency, or payment or reimbursement made on behalf of such agency, for expenses incurred by the Commission, its members, or employees in carrying out any activity pursuant to a statute administered by the Commission without regard to any other provision of law. Any such payments or reimbursements shall be considered a reimbursement to the appropriated funds of the Commission.


## Source credit

(Sept. 26, 1914, ch. 311, § 26, as added Pub. L. 109–455, § 11(2), Dec. 22, 2006, 120 Stat. 3381.)

## Notes

### Repeal of Section

For repeal of section by section 13 of Pub. L. 109–455, see Effective Date of Repeal note below.

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 26 of act Sept. 26, 1914, was renumbered section 28 and is classified to section 58 of this title.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of Repeal

Section repealed effective Sept. 30, 2027, see section 13 of Pub. L. 109–455, as amended, set out as a Termination Date of 2006 Amendment note under section 44 of this title.