Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 96 Part 1.djvu/72

 96 STAT. 30

PUBLIC LAW 97-164—APR. 2, 1982 (1) in the first definition, relating to court of the United States, by striking out "the Court of Claims, the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals,"; and (2) in the third definition, relating to judge of the United States, by striking out "Court of Claims, Court of Customs and Patent Appeals,". TRAVELING EXPENSES AND COURT ACCOMMODATIONS

SEC. 115. (a)(1) Section 456 of title 28, United States Code (including that section as it will become effective on April 1, 1984), is amended to read as follows:

28 USC 291 ^^ *^^-

"§ 456. Traveling expenses of justices and judges; official duty stations "(a) The Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts shall pay each justice or judge of the United States, and each retired justice or judge recalled or designated and assigned to active duty, while attending court or transacting official business at a place other than his official duty station for any continuous period of less than thirty calendar days (1) all necessary transportation expenses certified by the justice or judge; and (2) a per diem allowance for travel at the rate which the Director establishes not to exceed the maximum per diem allowance fixed by section 5702(a) of title 5, or in accordance with regulations which the Director shall prescribe with the approval of the Judicial Conference of the United States, reimbursement for his actual and necessary expenses of subsistence not in excess of the maximum amount fixed by section 5702 of title 5. The Director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts shall also pay each justice or judge of the United States, and each retired justice or judge recalled or designated and assigned to active duty, while attending court or transacting official business under an assignment authorized under chapter 13 of this title which exceeds in duration a continuous period of thirty calendar days, all necessary transportation expenses and actual and necessary expenses of subsistence actually incurred, notwithstanding the provisions of section 5702 of title 5, in accordance with regulations which the Director shall prescribe with the approval of the Judicial Conference of the United States. "(b) The official duty station of the Chief Justice of the United States, the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, and the judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the United States District Court for the District of Columbia shall be the District of Columbia. "(c) The official duty station of the judges of the United States Court of International Trade shall be New York City. "(d) The official duty station of each district judge shall be that place where a district court holds regular sessions at or near which the judge performs a substantial portion of his judicial work, which is nearest the place where he maintains his actual abode in which he customarily lives. "(e) The official duty station of a circuit judge shall be that place where a circuit or district court holds regular sessions at or near which the judge performs a substantial portion of his judicial work, or that place where the Director provides chambers to the judge where he performs a substantial portion of his judicial work, which

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