---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 5353"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "5353"
heading: "Quarters, subsistence, and laundry"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/5353"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart D — Pay and Allowances"
  - "Chapter 53 — Pay Rates and Systems"
  - "Subchapter V — Student-Employees"
---

# §5353. Quarters, subsistence, and laundry


An [agency](/usc/5/5351.md?p=1) may provide living quarters, subsistence, and laundering to [student-employees](/usc/5/5351.md?p=2) while at the hospitals, clinics, or laboratories. The reasonable value of the accommodations, when furnished, shall be deducted from the stipend of the [student-employee](/usc/5/5351.md?p=2). The head of the [agency](/usc/5/5351.md?p=1) concerned, and the District of Columbia Council with respect to the [government](/usc/5/4101.md?p=3) of the District of Columbia, shall fix the reasonable value of the accommodations at an amount not less than the lowest deduction applicable to regular [employees](/usc/5/4701.md?p=a-2) at the same hospital, clinic, or laboratory for similar accommodations.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 472; Pub. L. 90–623, § 1(8), Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1312.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Derivation | U.S. Code | Revised Statutes and<br>Statutes at Large |
|  | 5 U.S.C. 1051 (less 1st sentence). | Aug. 4, 1947, ch. 452, § 3 (less 1st sentence), 61 Stat. 727. |

The section is restated for clarity.

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

1968—Pub. L. 90–623 inserted “, and the District of Columbia Council with respect to the government of the District of Columbia,” after “head of the agency concerned”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1968 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 90–623 intended to restate without substantive change the law in effect on Oct. 22, 1968, see section 6 of Pub. L. 90–623, set out as a note under section 5334 of this title.

### Transfer of Functions

District of Columbia Council, as established by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1967, abolished as of noon Jan. 2, 1975, by Pub. L. 93–198, title VII, § 711, Dec. 24, 1973, 87 Stat. 818, and replaced by Council of District of Columbia, as provided by section 401 of Pub. L. 93–198.