---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 715q"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "715q"
heading: "Expenses of commission; authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/715q"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Protection of Migratory Game and Insectivorous Birds"
  - "Subchapter III — Migratory Bird Conservation"
---

# §715q. Expenses of commission; authorization of appropriations


A sum sufficient to pay the necessary expenses of the [commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) and its members, not to exceed an annual expenditure of $7,500, is authorized to be appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Said appropriation shall be paid out on the audit and order of the chairman of said [commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c), which audit and order shall be conclusive and binding upon the Government Accountability Office as to the correctness of the accounts of said [commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c).


## Source credit

(Feb. 18, 1929, ch. 257, § 18, 45 Stat. 1225; Pub. L. 87–812, Oct. 15, 1962, 76 Stat. 922; Pub. L. 108–271, § 8(b), July 7, 2004, 118 Stat. 814.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2004—Pub. L. 108–271 substituted “Government Accountability Office” for “General Accounting Office”.

1962—Pub. L. 87–812 increased annual expenditures from not more than $5,000 to not more than $7,500 and corrected a misspelling of “commission”.