---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 5062"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "5062"
heading: "Audit"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/5062"
units:
  - "Chapter 66 — Domestic Volunteer Services"
  - "Subchapter IV — Administration and Coordination"
---

# §5062. Audit

- (a) **Recordkeeping—** Each recipient of Federal grants, subgrants, contracts, subcontracts, or loans entered into under this chapter other than by formal advertising, and which are otherwise authorized by this chapter, shall keep such records as the [Director](/usc/42/5061.md?p=1) or the [Inspector General](/usc/42/5061.md?p=11) shall prescribe, including records which fully disclose the amount and disposition by such recipient of the proceeds of such assistance, the total cost of the [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) or undertaking in connection with which such assistance is given or used, the amount of that portion of the cost of the [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) or undertaking supplied by other sources, and such other records as will facilitate an effective audit.
- (b) **Access to books, documents, papers, and records; limitations—** The [Director](/usc/42/5061.md?p=1), the [Inspector General](/usc/42/5061.md?p=11), and the Comptroller General of the [United States](/usc/42/5061.md?p=2), or any of their duly authorized representatives, shall, until the expiration of three years after completion of the [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) or undertaking referred to in [subsection (a)](#a) of this section, have access for the purpose of audit and examination to any books, documents, papers, and records of such recipients which in the opinion of the [Director](/usc/42/5061.md?p=1), the [Inspector General](/usc/42/5061.md?p=11), or the Comptroller General may be related or pertinent to the grants, contracts, subcontracts, subgrants, or loans referred to in [subsection (a)](#a).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–113, title IV, § 422, Oct. 1, 1973, 87 Stat. 414; Pub. L. 103–82, title III, § 369, Sept. 21, 1993, 107 Stat. 909.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 93–113, Oct. 1, 1973, 87 Stat. 394, known as the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 4950 of this title and Tables.

### Amendments

1993—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 103–82, § 369(1), inserted “or the Inspector General” after “Director”.

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 103–82, § 369(2), inserted “, the Inspector General,” after “Director” in two places.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1993 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 103–82 effective Oct. 1, 1993, see section 392 of Pub. L. 103–82, set out as a note under section 4951 of this title.