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§18235 Administration; other use permitted by Secretary

Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle E— - Reserve Components › Part PART V— - SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT › Chapter CHAPTER 1803— - FACILITIES FOR RESERVE COMPONENTS › § 18235

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

After consulting the Senate and House Armed Services Committees about policy, the Secretary of Defense may run, equip, maintain, and use facilities built or acquired for this law. The Secretary may let people or groups who are not military use those facilities under leases or agreements. Money from those leases must go to the Treasury and be credited to the same account that pays the facility’s upkeep, including utilities and services. The Secretary cannot allow any use or sale of a facility if it would block its use for reserve force administration and training, or, in time of war or national emergency, for use by other military units or the United States for any other purpose.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §18235

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(a)The Secretary of Defense, after consulting the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives on matters of policy, may—
(1)administer, operate, maintain, and equip facilities constructed, expanded, rehabilitated, or converted under section 18233 of this title or otherwise acquired and used for the purposes of this chapter;
(2)permit persons or organizations other than members and units of the armed forces to use those facilities under such leases or other agreements as he considers appropriate; and
(3)cover the payments received under those leases or agreements into the Treasury to the credit of the appropriation from which the cost of maintaining the facility, including its utilities and services, is paid.
(b)The Secretary may not permit any use or disposition to be made of a facility covered by subsection (a) that would interfere with its use—
(1)for administering and training the reserve components of the armed forces; or
(2)in time of war or national emergency, by other units of the armed forces or by the United States for any other purpose.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 2235(a)50:883(c) (less 1st sentence, and less last 70 words of last sentence).Sept. 11, 1950, ch. 945, § 4(c) (less 1st sentence), 64 Stat. 830. 2235(b)50:883(c) (last 70 words of last sentence). In subsection (a), the words “from time to time” and “or appropriations” are omitted as surplusage. In subsection (b), the words “United States” are substituted for the words “Federal Government”. The words “units of” are omitted as surplusage. The words “may not” are substituted for the words “shall at no time”.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1999—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 106–65 substituted “and the Committee on Armed Services” for “and the Committee on National Security” in introductory provisions. 1996—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 104–106 substituted “Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on National Security of the House of Representatives” for “Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives”. 1994—Pub. L. 103–337, § 1664(b)(2), renumbered section 2235 of this title as this section. Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 103–337, § 1664(b)(7), substituted “18233” for “2233(a)(1)”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1994 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 103–337 effective Dec. 1, 1994, except as otherwise provided, see section 1691 of Pub. L. 103–337, set out as an

Effective Date

note under section 10001 of this title.

Reference

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Citation

10 U.S.C. § 18235

Title 10Armed Forces

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73