labria echelons when required. The principal funcition of fourth echelon maintenance is to re 1 罩 pair subassemblies, assemblies, and major items for return to the lower echelons. 3. DEPOT MAINTENANCE. Depot maintenance is that maintenance required for the repair of material which requires a major overhaul or complete rebuild of parts, subassemblies, assemblies, and/or the end item as required. Such maintenance is intended to conserve supplies and replenish stocks of serviceable equipment or to support lower levels of maintenance by the use of more extensive shop equipment and personnel of higher technical skill than are available in organizational or field maintenance activities. This category embraces the fifth echelon, which is the highest echelon of main tenance. a. Fifth echelon. Fifth echelon maintenance is that maintenance authorized for rebuilding major items, assemblies, parts, accessories, tools, and test equipment. It normally supports supply on a rebuild and return to stock basis. Fifth echelon operations are scheduled so as to employ production and assembly-line methods whenever practicable. 50060 MAINTENANCE RESPONSIBILITIES 1. Maintenance responsibilities vary from preventive maintenance operations, through highly specialized repair and reconditioning techniques, to the supervision and inspection necessary to insure that equipment is actually ready for use. Using personnel, maintenance specialists, and all commanding officers must make every effort to prevent the deterioration of Marine Corps materiel. Positive action is required of all concerned to insure the efficiency of Marine Corps equipment. 2. The degree of maintenance to be applied to a particular item by a specified agency, such as an organic service element, field depot, or base depot, will be governed by the policies enumerated in this chapter and by additional instructions promulgated from time to time. However, no agency having an assigned maintenance level will perform the work of an agency having a higher maintenance level at the expense of neglecting its own assigned function. 3. Generally, materiel which is beyond the maintenance capabilities of any organization, or which cannot be repaired within the time available, is evacuated to the next higher maintenance organization. Equipment requiring extensive repairs will be replaced with serviceable equipment from local stocks. Where provisions have not been made for field maintenance, equipment may be evac uated to a depot maintenance installation for necessary repair. Requirements for survey action relative to the replacement of equipment are set forth in paragraph 54552. Authority for requisitioning and effecting replacement of equipment is contained in paragraph 54200.2. 4. Commanding officers are responsible for the inculcation of maintenance discipline in their respective commands. Within the scope of organizational maintenance is preventive maintenance. Thus commanding officers are responsible that each individual user, wearer, or operator of equipment within their commands is properly trained in the proper preventive maintenance of such materiel. The general principles of maintenance set forth in Part C, Chapter 58, will be applied to all classes of Marine Corps property. 5. Maintenance operations performed on Marine Corps materiel are guided by various technical manuals, spare parts allowance lists, and other instructions published by the Marine Corps and other agencies of the Department of Defense. In many instances allowances of spare parts and maintenance procedures are based upon the echelon of maintenance rather than the category, (See paragraph 50057-1.) The data based upon echelons of maintenance, contained in existing manuals, lists, and other publications, will continue in effect until superseded by publications based on the three categories of maintenance. 50061 SUPPLY SECTION OF REGIMENTS AND HIGHER UNITS 1. In regiments and higher units, a supply officer is a member of the commander's special staff which includes the heads of the technical, supply, and administrative services and certain technical specialists. As a special staff officer, the supply officer supervises the supply activities throughout the command. 2. The supply officer is directly responsible to the commander and operates with other staff officers under the policies prescribed by the commander. Within the scope of these policies and within the limits of the resources at his disposal, he has responsibility in insuring the best possible performance of his mission. Supply matters of a routine administrative or technical nature are usually handled through personal conference or correspondence with the supply officers of the next higher or lower echelons. All other instructions must be issued through the proper command channels. Each unit supply officer is responsible that his superiors are fully informed, through proper channels, of the sup ply situation of his unit. Cooperation within the special staff is necessary to proper staff team play, and staff team play is necessary to successful execution of the commander's plans, including the supply plan. 3. The supply officer's relations with supply officers of subordinate units are those of a special staff officer of the higher unit commander. He, in no sense whatever, exercises command functions in such dealing. officer's relations subordinate units arti officer of the hig no sense whatever tions in such den PART D. BONDING OF OFFICERS, ENLISTED PERSONNEL, AND 50150 BONDING OF OFFICERS 1. Officers who are appointed as account- 2. Unless otherwise directed by the Commandant of the Marine Corps, officers who are not accountable for either public funds or public property, or who are not performing duties involving the disbursement or handling of public funds, are not required to give bond. 3. When required, the bonds of commissioned officers (permanent or temporary) will be in the sum of $10,000, and the bonds of commissioned warrant officers and warrant officers (permanent or temporary) will be in the sum of $5,000. 4. The term "officer (s)" as used in subparagraphs 1, 2, and 3 above shall be construed to mean commissioned officers serving under permanent assignments or temporary details for supply duty; and, commissioned officers, commissioned warrant officers or warrant officers appointed as officers accountable for public funds or public property. However, it is not intended that commissioned officers, commissioned warrant officers, and warrant officers assigned to duties involving fiscal accounting or depot stores accounting be bonded unless they also handle public funds. 50151 BONDING OF COLLECTION AGENTS 1. A disbursing officer or an officer accountable for public property may appoint as a collection agent an officer, enlisted person, or a civilian employee to receive and account for collections, to make refunds and special deposits, and to effect change transactions. The disbursing or accountable officer making the designation will state in writing to the collection agent the authority delegated and the specific duties to be performed. The disbursing or accountable officer will exercise care to assure himself that the person being considered for appointment as an agent is trustworthy and capable of assuming the responsibilities of the office 50153 and will maintain strict control 2. Authority may be delegated to a collection agent to sign receipts, reports, and other papers pertaining to the agent's specified duties. An accountable officer may, in his letter of designation, authorize his collection agent to deal directly with the disbursing officer. A collection agent will sign receipts, reports and other papers in the following manner: Collecting Agent. 3. Ordinarily a collection agent will be bonded in the amount of $2,000. The disbursing officer or the officer accountable for public property may, because of the dollar value of transactions handled, require that the bond be in an amount not in excess of $10,000. When the amount of funds advanced to a collection agent for the purpose of making change transactions is $100 or less and the daily collections average less than $100, the designating officer may, in writing, waive the giving of bond by his collection agent. Copies of all such waivers shall be forwarded to the Commandant of the Marine Corps (Code DGH). 50152 BONDING OF AGENT OFFICERS 1. Post supply officers at posts where there 50153 PROCEDURE FOR BONDING 1. An individual required to be bonded will submit to the Commandant of the Marine Corps (Code CDA) a request for bond application, via the disbursing officer or supply officer whom he represents, if applicable. The individual may state in his request the surety company he prefers. If no surety is selected by the applicant, the Commandant of the Marine Corps will select one of the approved corporate sureties. 2. An application blank (original only) of the surety company selected and a partially executed Official Bond, in duplicate, will be furnished the applicant. The application blank must be executed in full by the applicant. A check or money order made payable to the surety, to cover payment of the first year's premium must be attached to the application blank. 3. The Official Bond will be legibly signed in duplicate by the principal. Two witnesses are required as to the principal's signature; the signature and the address of each witness must be legible. 4. A disbursing officer or a deputy of a disbursing officer will be furnished three signature cards for completion in his own handwriting. The signature indicated on the signature cards as the officer's official signature must correspond with his signature on the Official Bond. The signature on the Official Bond is the official signature and must be used in signing Treasury checks, in endorsing for deposit checks received and in signing the Account Current and other official documents. 5. When an officer being bonded is also being appointed as a deputy to a disbursing officer, a partially executed Power of Attorney, in duplicate, will be furnished the disbursing officer. The original and duplicate Power of Attorney will be legibly signed by the principal. 6. All papers required by subparagraphs 2, 3, 4, and 5 will be forwarded to the Commandant of the Marine Corps Code (CDA) 50154 SURETIES 1. A bond on which the sureties are individuals must be signed by not less than two sureties, at least one of whom must qualify in a sum, over and above all exemptions, debts, and legal liabilities, not less than the full amount of the bond; if there are but two sureties, the second must also qualify in like amount; or in lieu of a second surety for the whole amount, two or more individuals will be accepted, provided the aggregate amount for which they qualify be not less than the full amount of the bond. Each surety must make affidavit stating the value of his or her property over and above all exemptions, debts, and legal liabilities. The affidavit must also contain the place of resident of the surety. In case a married woman should be offered as surety, an additional certificate will be required to the effect that such surety holds the property in her own right, and is competent under the laws of the State in which she resides to bind herself as surety in such case. The sufficiency of the sureties must be certified to by a judge or clerk of a United States court or by a United States attorney, preferably for the district in which such sureties reside. Where the sureties are individuals, an affidavit of surety on the prescribed Treasury Department form must be submitted at the end of 2 years. 2. Under the provisions of title 6 U. S. C. 6-8, a surety or guarantee company, duly certified by the Secretary of the Treasury as having complied with the requirements of said Act, and by him authorized to do business thereunder, and having a duly appointed agent in the District of Columbia, will be accepted as sole surety on a bond. A duly qualified corporate surety company (company holding a certificate of authority from the Secretary of the Treasury as acceptable surety on Federal bonds) is preferred by the Treasury Department. However, no officer or person having the approval of any bond shall exact that it shall be furnished by a guarantee company, or by any particular guarantee company. (See 14 Comp. Gen. 618) 3. The wife of a principal will not be accepted as surety on a bond. 50156 PAYMENT OF PREMIUM of 1. The United States will not pay any part of the premium or other cost of furnishing a bond required by law or otherwise of any officer or employee of the United States. Accordingly, the premiums on bonds must be paid by the bonded individual. Each bonded person, whether or not a statement of premiums due has been received from the surety company, will forward, at least 30 days prior to the anniversary date of his bond, the amount of such premium to his surety company or agent and, at the same time, request that a receipt in duplicate be furnished. The duplicate of the receipt will be forwarded to rety, d to the operty under the des to ba The suff fied to b es court eferably Ees resi ls, ant d Treas mitted t 50157 EFFECTIVE DATE OF BOND 1. A bond is effective from and including the date of its approval by the Secretary of the Navy. The effective date of a bond and the date of execution thereof by the surety remain unchanged throughout its life notwithstanding its renewal by the payment of subsequent annual premiums. On accounts current and other similar papers requiring refto the date of bond, the date of execution of the bond by the surety will be used, and not the date of approval by the Secretary of the Navy. erence 50158 RENEWAL OF BONDS 1. The payment and acceptance of the annual premiums on corporate surety bonds furnished by officers, enlisted men, and civil employees of the Marine Corps is a compliance with the requirements for the renewal of such bonds. However, the Commandant of the Marine Corps may, at his discretion, require a new bond at any time. Whenever it is directed that a new bond be filed, the bonded individual shall, if possible, file bond in time for approval by the Secretary of the Navy on the first day of the month following that in which the directive to file a new bond is received. 2. A bonded officer on disbursing duty at a shore station within the continental United States shall, upon the receipt of instructions to file a new bond, take the necessary steps to close his accounts and deposit all balances covered by the bond in force at the end of business on the last day of the month in which the directive to file a new bond is received. These balances shall be deposited to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States in the manner prescribed by Chapter 77. The disbursing officer shall then notify the Commandant of the Marine Corps by dispatch of the number and date of the certificate of deposit, and, at the same time, apply for such funds as may be needed in order that there may be no interruption in the payments of outstanding obligations. 3. A bonded officer on disbursing duty at a shore station outside the continental United States shall, upon the receipt of instructions to file a new bond, take the necessary steps to close his accounts, and dispose of all balances at the end of business on the last day of the month in which the directive to file a new bond is received, according to the appropriate method prescribed in subparagraphs a or b below. a. It will not be necessary for a disbursing officer on duty at a station outside the continental United States to deposit his official funds in a depositary of the United States or to send them to the United States or to convert them into United States money. It will be sufficient for him to transfer the whole of his official funds--cash and deposits--to another bonded officer. Upon transfer of all official funds, the disbursing officer shall notify the Commandant of the Marine Corps by dispatch of the date of transfer of such funds and to whom they were transferred, and, at the same time, apply for such Treasury deposit as may be needed. On notice of the approval of the new bond, the disbursing officer may receive the transferred funds (cash) back on formal transfer and take them up in his new accounts under the new bond. (See 5 Comp. Gen. 170.) b. If there be no bonded officer to whom the official funds can be transferred, or if there be no United States depositary available in which to deposit the funds, then a board of three disinterested officers shall be appointed by the commanding officer or commandant to verify the balances of the bonded officer. A certificate will be prepared, dated, and signed by the members of the board showing (a) the amount of cash on hand and (b) the amount of the depositary balance. This certificate will be attached to the account current rendered under the old bond. The balances so certified will appear in the account under the old bond as "transferred to my account under new bond dated --, per certificate herewith"; and the same balances will be taken up in the first account rendered under the new bond 194---as transferred from my account under old bond dated------Upon verification of the balances by the board, the disbursing officer shall notify the Commandant of the Marine Corps by dispatch of the date of such verification, making reference to this article. -- 4. Where a disbursing officer thus called upon to file a new bond is detached from duty and required to settle his accounts and to deposit all balances due the United States before the end of the month, he shall, if possible, file new bond in time for approval by the Secretary of the Navy before such time as he (the disbursing officer) will report for the new duty requiring a bond. As soon as all balances are deposited, the disbursing officer shall notify the Commandant of the Marine Corps by dispatch of the number and date of the certificate of deposit. In the event the balances due the United States are transferred to another bonded officer, the disbursing officer shall notify the Commandant of the Marine Corps of the date of transfer of such funds and to whom they were transferred. |