Sec. 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) payments for subsistence expenses at rates or in
amounts which the Director establishes, in accordance with regulations which
the Director shall prescribe with the approval of the Judicial Conference of
the United States and after considering the rates or amounts set by the
Administrator of General Services and the President pursuant to 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 is nearest the place where he
maintains his actual abode in which he customarily lives.
- (f) The official duty station of a retired judge shall be
established in accordance with section 374 of this
title.
- (g) Each circuit or district judge whose official duty
station is not fixed expressly by this section shall notify the Director of
the Administrative Office of the United States Courts in writing of his actual
abode and official duty station upon his appointment and from time to time
thereafter as his official duty station may change.
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