---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 U.S.C. § 944"
title: "14"
title_heading: "Coast Guard"
number: "944"
heading: "Confidential investigative expenses"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/14/944"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Establishment, Powers, Duties, and Administration"
  - "Chapter 9 — Administration"
  - "Subchapter II — Miscellaneous"
---

# §944. Confidential investigative expenses


Not more than $250,000 each fiscal year appropriated for the operations and support of the Coast Guard shall be available for investigative expenses of a confidential character, to be expended on the approval or authority of the [Commandant](/usc/14/106.md) and payment to be made on the [Commandant](/usc/14/106.md)’s certificate of necessity for confidential purposes, and the [Commandant](/usc/14/106.md)’s determination shall be final and conclusive upon the accounting officers of the Government.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 93–283, § 1(10), May 14, 1974, 88 Stat. 140, § 658; amended Pub. L. 108–293, title II, § 221, Aug. 9, 2004, 118 Stat. 1040; renumbered § 944 and amended Pub. L. 115–282, title I, § 107(b), title III, § 308, Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4205, 4248; Pub. L. 116–283, div. G, title LVXXXV [LXXXV], § 8513(a)(3), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 4760.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2021—Pub. L. 116–283 substituted “the operations and support” for “necessary expenses for the operation” and “the Commandant’s” for “his” in two places.

2018—Pub. L. 115–282, § 308, substituted “$250,000” for “$45,000”.

Pub. L. 115–282, § 107(b), renumbered section 658 of this title as this section.

2004—Pub. L. 108–293 substituted “$45,000 each fiscal year” for “$15,000 per annum”.