---
kind: "section"
citation: "31 U.S.C. § 783"
title: "31"
title_heading: "Money and Finance"
number: "783"
heading: "Rules and regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/31/783"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — General"
  - "Chapter 7 — Government Accountability Office"
  - "Subchapter VI — Property Management"
---

# §783. Rules and regulations

- (a) The Comptroller General is authorized to make all needful rules and regulations for the Government of the General Accounting Office Building,[^1] and to annex to such rules and regulations such reasonable penalties, within the limits prescribed in [subsection (b)](#b), as will ensure their enforcement. Such rules and regulations shall be posted and kept posted in a conspicuous place on such Federal property.
- (b) Whoever shall violate any rule or regulation promulgated pursuant to [subsection (a)](#a) shall be fined not more than $500 or imprisoned not more than 6 months, or both.

## Footnotes

[^1]: See Change of Name note below.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 100–545, § 1, Oct. 28, 1988, 102 Stat. 2728.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

General Accounting Office redesignated Government Accountability Office. See section 8 of Pub. L. 108–271, set out as a note under section 702 of this title.