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PUBLIC LAW 91-375-AUG. 12, 1970

[84 STAT.

"§2601. Collection and adjustment of debts " (a) The Postal S e r v i c ^ " (1) shall collect debts due the Postal Service; "(2) shall collect and remit fines, penalties, and forfeitures arising out of matters affecting the Postal Service; " (3) may adjust, pay, or credit the account of a postmaster or of an enlisted person of an Armed Force performing postal duties, for any loss of Postal Service funds, papers, postage, or other stamped stock or accountable paper; and "(4) may prescribe penalties for failure to render accounts. The Postal Service may refer ^my matter, which is uncollectable through administrative action, to the General Accounting Office for collection. This subsection does not affect the authority of the Attorney General in cases in which judicial proceedings are instituted. " (b) In all cases of disability or alleged liability for any sum of money by way of damages or otherwise, under any provision of law in relation to the officers, employees, operations, or business of the Postal Service, the Postal Service shall determine whether the interests of the Postal Service probably require the exercise of its powers over the same. Upon the determination, the Postal Service on such terms as it deems just and expedient, may— " (1) remove the disability; or "'(2) compromise, release, or discharge the claim for such sum of money and damages, "§ 2602. Transportation of international mail by air carriers of the United States " (a) The Postal Service may offset against any balances due another country resulting from the transaction of international money order business, or otherwise, amounts due from that country to the United States, or to the United States for the account of air carriers of the United States transporting mail of that country, when— "(1) the Postal Service puts into effect rates of compensation to be charged another country for transportation; and "(2) the United States is required to collect from another country the amounts owed for transportation for the account of the air carriers. "(b) When the Postal Service has proceeded under authority of subsection (a) of this section, it shall— "(1) give appropriate credit to the country involved; " (2) pay to the air carrier the portion of the amount so credited which is owed to the air carrier for its services in transporting the mail of the other country; and "(8) deposit in the Postal Service Fund that portion of the amount so credited which is due the United States on its own account. " (c) The Postal Service, may advance to an air carrier, out of funds available for payment of balances due other countries, the amounts determined by the Postal Service to be due from another country to an air carrier for the transportation of its mails when— "(1) collections are to be made by the Ignited States for the account of air carriers; and "(2) the Postal Service determines that the balance of funds available is such that the advances may be made therefrom. Collection from another country of the amount so advanced shall be made by offset, or otherwise, and the appropriation from which the advance is made shall be reimbursed by the collections made by the United States.

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