---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 4724"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "4724"
heading: "Intergovernmental cooperation in recruiting and examining activities; potential employees, certification; payments for costs; credits to appropriation or fund for payment of expenses"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/4724"
units:
  - "Chapter 62 — Intergovernmental Personnel Program"
  - "Subchapter II — Strengthening State and Local Personnel Administration"
---

# §4724. Intergovernmental cooperation in recruiting and examining activities; potential employees, certification; payments for costs; credits to appropriation or fund for payment of expenses

- (a) The [Office](/usc/42/4762.md?p=1) may join, on a shared-costs basis, with [State](/usc/42/4762.md?p=3) and [local governments](/usc/42/4762.md?p=4) in cooperative recruiting and examining activities under such procedures and regulations as may jointly be agreed upon.
- (b) The [Office](/usc/42/4762.md?p=1) also may, on the written request of a [State](/usc/42/4762.md?p=3) or [local government](/usc/42/4762.md?p=4) and under such procedures as may be jointly agreed upon, certify to such governments from appropriate Federal registers the names of potential employees. The [State](/usc/42/4762.md?p=3) or [local government](/usc/42/4762.md?p=4) making the request shall pay the [Office](/usc/42/4762.md?p=1) for the costs, as determined by the [Office](/usc/42/4762.md?p=1), of performing the service, and such payments shall be credited to the appropriation or fund from which the expenses were or are to be paid.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–648, title II, § 204, Jan. 5, 1971, 84 Stat. 1914; 1978 Reorg. Plan No. 2, § 102, eff. Jan. 1, 1979, 43 F.R. 36037, 92 Stat. 3783.)

## Notes

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

“Office”, meaning Office of Personnel Management, substituted in text for “Commission”, meaning Civil Service Commission, pursuant to Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1978, § 102, 43 F.R. 36037, 92 Stat. 3783, set out under section 1101 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, which transferred functions vested by statute in Civil Service Commission and Chairman thereof to Director of Office of Personnel Management (except as otherwise specified), effective Jan. 1, 1979, as provided by section 1–102 of Ex. Ord. No. 12107, Dec. 28, 1978, 44 F.R. 1055, set out under section 1101 of Title 5.