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B-197605 1 (1981-06-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjmz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 42~ DECISION FILE: B-197605 MATTER OF: Bil DIGEST: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITEO STATES WASHINGTON. 0. C. 20548 DATE: June 25, 1981 / 5 24 8 leting Fund Reimbursement In order to ensure orderly investigation into alleged illegal activiLies on base, Air Force base commander ordered witnesses to stay in transient quarters under protec- tive custody. While in transient quarters, members received maid service for service charge of $4 a day. In view of purpose of assignment to transient quarters, service charges may be paid out of appropriated funds. The question is whether appropriated funds may be used to reimburse the billeting fund, a nonappropriated fund entity, for charges incurred for military members who were ordered into transient quarters for protective custody. As will be explained, the billeting fund may be reimbursed out of appropriated funds. The question was submitted for an advance decision by Captain Dale K. Berger, USAF, who is the Chief, Accounting and Finance Branch of the Headquarters 351st Strategic Missile Wing (SAC), Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri. During the summer and fall of 1979, several members of the Air Force at Whiteman Air Force Base were ordered into transient quarters and placed under protective custody. The members were to be witnesses in an investigation of alleged illegal activity taking place on the base. The decision to place the members in protective custody was made jointly by the base commander and the staff judge advocate. While in protective custody, the members' rooms were cleaned daily by maids employed by the nonappropriated fund activity at a service charge of $4 a day. Captain Berger questions whether payment may be authorized because there is no applicable Air Force regulation authorzing this and because of our decision in 20 Comp. Gen. 601 (1941). In that case, we held that service members could not receive free maid and room service since furnishing such services: would violate the statutorv provision, now contained in 5 U.S.C. § 5536, prohibiting members of the uniformed services from receiving additional pay without statutory authority. 9 5006 fto ov

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