---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 2045"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "2045"
heading: "Investment of court registry funds"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/2045"
units:
  - "Part V — Procedure"
  - "Chapter 129 — Moneys Paid into Court"
---

# §2045. Investment of court registry funds

- (a) The Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, or the Director’s designee under [subsection (b)](#b), may request the Secretary of the Treasury to invest funds received under [section 2041](/usc/28/2041.md) in public debt securities with maturities suitable to the needs of the funds, as determined by the Director or the Director’s designee, and bearing interest at a rate determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, taking into consideration current market yields on outstanding marketable obligations of the United States of comparable maturity.
- (b) The Director may designate the clerk of a court described in [section 610](/usc/28/610.md) to exercise the authority conferred by [subsection (a)](#a).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 110–406, § 8(a), Oct. 13, 2008, 122 Stat. 4293.)