---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 40126"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "40126"
heading: "Severable services contracts for periods crossing fiscal years"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/40126"
units:
  - "Subtitle VII — Aviation Programs"
  - "Part A — Air Commerce and Safety"
  - "Subpart i — general"
  - "Chapter 401 — General Provisions"
---

# §40126. Severable services contracts for periods crossing fiscal years

- (a) **In General.—** The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration may enter into a contract for procurement of severable services for a period that begins in 1 fiscal year and ends in the next fiscal year if (without regard to any option to extend the period of the contract) the contract period does not exceed 1 year.
- (b) **Obligation of Funds.—** Funds made available for a fiscal year may be obligated for the total amount of a contract entered into under the authority of [subsection (a)](#a).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 106–181, title VII, § 705(a), Apr. 5, 2000, 114 Stat. 157.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section applicable only to fiscal years beginning after Sept. 30, 1999, see section 3 of Pub. L. 106–181, set out as an Effective Date of 2000 Amendments note under section 106 of this title.