§2614 — Title 10 Armed Forces | U.S. Code

Summary

Allows the appropriate military Secretary to accept communications equipment from local public safety agencies to help coordinate response and recovery during a disaster. The Secretary can also accept services to operate and maintain that equipment. The Secretary of Defense must write the rules for how this works. Equipment can be accepted only if the military’s own communications at the disaster site are not enough to meet military needs. Services can be accepted only if the military commander lacks the needed capability. People who provide those services are not federal officers, employees, or agents.

Title 10, §2614

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(a)(1)Subject to subsection (c), the Secretary concerned—

(1)may accept communications equipment for use in coordinating joint response and recovery operations with public safety agencies in the event of a disaster; and

(2)may accept services related to the operation and maintenance of such equipment.

(b)The authority under subsection (a) shall be exercised under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense.

(c)(1)Equipment may be accepted under subsection (a)(1) only to the extent that communications equipment under the control of the Secretary concerned at the potential disaster response site is inadequate to meet military requirements for communicating with public safety agencies during the period of response to the disaster.

(2)Services may be accepted under subsection (a)(2) related to the operation and maintenance of communications equipment only to the extent that the necessary capabilities are not available to the military commander having custody of the equipment.

(d)A person providing services accepted under this section may not be considered, by reason of the provision of such services, to be an officer, employee, or agent of the United States for any purpose.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2006—Pub. L. 109–364 renumbered section 2613 of this title as this section and redesignated the second subsec. (c) as (d).

§2614 Emergency communications equipment: acceptance from local public safety agencies for temporary use related to disasters

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Title 10, §2614

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