---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 4111"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "4111"
heading: "Acceptance of contributions, awards, and other payments"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/4111"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart C — Employee Performance"
  - "Chapter 41 — Training"
---

# §4111. Acceptance of contributions, awards, and other payments

- (a) To the extent authorized by regulation of the President, contributions and awards incident to [training](/usc/5/4101.md?p=4) in [non-Government facilities](/usc/5/4101.md?p=6), and payment of travel, subsistence, and other expenses incident to attendance at meetings, may be made to and accepted by an [employee](/usc/5/4701.md?p=a-2), without regard to [section 209 of title 18](/usc/18/209.md), if the contributions, awards, and payments are made by an organization determined by the [Secretary](/usc/5/9901.md?p=2) of the Treasury to be an organization described by [section 501(c)(3) of title 26](/usc/26/501.md?p=c-3) which is exempt from taxation under [section 501(a) of title 26](/usc/26/501.md?p=a).
- (b) When a contribution, award, or payment, in cash or in kind, is made to an [employee](/usc/5/4701.md?p=a-2) for travel, subsistence, or other expenses under [subsection (a)](#a) of this section, an appropriate reduction, under regulations of the President, shall be made from payment by the [Government](/usc/5/4101.md?p=3) to the [employee](/usc/5/4701.md?p=a-2) for travel, subsistence, or other expenses incident to [training](/usc/5/4101.md?p=4) in a [non-Government facility](/usc/5/4101.md?p=6) or to attendance at a meeting.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 437; Pub. L. 96–54, § 2(a)(2), Aug. 14, 1979, 93 Stat. 381.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Derivation | U.S. Code | Revised Statutes and<br>Statutes at Large |
| (a) | 5 U.S.C. 2318(a). | July 7, 1958, Pub. L. 85–507, § 19(a), 72 Stat. 336. |
| (b) | 5 U.S.C. 2318(c). | July 7, 1958, Pub. L. 85–507, § 19(c), 72 Stat. 336. |

In subsection (a), the words “section 209 of title 18” are substituted for “section 1914 of title 18” on authority of the Act of Oct. 23, 1962, Pub. L. 87–849, § 2, 76 Stat. 1126.

Standard changes are made to conform with the definitions applicable and the style of this title as outlined in the preface to the report.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1979—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 96–54 substituted “President” for “Director of the Bureau of the Budget”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1979 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 96–54 effective July 12, 1979, see section 2(b) of Pub. L. 96–54, set out as a note under section 305 of this title.

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

Functions vested by law (including reorganization plan) in Bureau of the Budget or Director of Bureau of the Budget transferred to President by section 101 of 1970 Reorg. Plan No. 2, eff. July 1, 1970, 35 F.R. 7959, 84 Stat. 2085, set out in the Appendix to this title. Section 102 of 1970 Reorg. Plan No. 2, redesignated Bureau of the Budget as Office of Management and Budget.

### Delegation of Functions

Functions of President under subsec. (a) of this section delegated to Office of Personnel Management, see section 401(b) of Ex. Ord. No. 11348, Apr. 20, 1967, 32 F.R. 6335, set out as a note under section 4103 of this title.

Functions of President under subsec. (b) of this section delegated to Director of Office of Management and Budget, see Ex. Ord. No. 12152, Aug. 14, 1979, 44 F.R. 48143, set out as a note under section 301 of Title 3, The President.