[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 31, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 31CFR245.8]

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                  TITLE 31--MONEY AND FINANCE: TREASURY
 
         CHAPTER II--FISCAL SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
 
PART 245--CLAIMS ON ACCOUNT OF TREASURY CHECKS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 245.8  Receipt or recovery of original check.

    (a) If the original check is received or recovered by the claimant 
after he has requested the agency to issue a replacement check, but 
before a replacement check has been received, he

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should immediately advise the agency and hold such check until receipt 
of instructions with respect to the negotiability of such check.
    (b) If the original check is received or recovered by the claimant 
after a replacement check has been received by him, the original shall 
not be cashed, but shall be forwarded immediately to the agency that 
authorized the issuance of such check. Under no circumstances should 
both the original and replacement checks be cashed.