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B-183711 1 (1976-10-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaddxt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: It .4 FILE: B-183711 DATE: October 6, 1976 MATTER DIGEST* OF: Jiy Fees - ederal Employees in Oeor4ia State Courts Since section 59-120 of Georgia Code Annotated, as amended effective July 1, i974, provides that jurocs in state courts are to receive expLnses instead of compensLion In connection with their service, we held in B-183711, October 21, 1975, that Federal employ- ees who served as jurors in Georgia state courts could retain monies received. 'Accordingly, employees who served as jurors in Georgia state courts on or after July 1, 1974, and who have turned in monies received to their agencies, are entitled to refunds from appropriations into which such monies were dcposiLed. 20 Comp. Gen. 279 (1940) and 20 id. 550 (1941) are obsolete and are no longer to be followed. This decision is in response to a request by Mr. Jack Raskin, Comptroller o!. the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency. dated February 4. 1976, regarding the entLtlement of Cmployc'2s who served as jurors in Georgia state courts to receive refunds for jury expense allowances reimbursed to the United States Treasury and the proper procedure for obtaining such refunds. In decision B-18111, October 21, 1975, we interpreted the applicable Federal and Georgia statutes to provide that cmployees who serve on juries in the State of Georgia may retain monies paid to them on the basis that such monies are reimbursement for expenses rather than jury fees. That decision was based on our determination that Section 5C 20 of the Coorgia Code Annotated (Supp. 1974), which states thL, t..e monies provided are for expense allowances, indicates a prima facie intent merely to reimburse the jurers foc out-of-pocket expenses. :q& THE COMPTROLLER GENF&RAL. DECISION j I: r OF THE U MIeW sBTAT-s WASHINGTON. D.C. 20540 a-. - C I

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