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§2633 Stevedoring and terminal services: vessels carrying cargo or passengers sponsored by military department

Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle A— - General Military Law › Part PART IV— - SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROPERTY › Chapter CHAPTER 157— - TRANSPORTATION › § 2633

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The head of a military department may, under rules they create, provide stevedoring and terminal services and facilities to ships that their department sponsors and that carry cargo, passengers, or both. Those services must be charged at fair, reasonable rates, and the money collected must be returned to the same fund or appropriation that paid for the services.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §2633

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(a)Notwithstanding section 1301(a) of title 31, the Secretary of a military department may, under such regulations as he may prescribe, furnish stevedoring and terminal services and facilities to vessels carrying cargo, or passengers, or both, sponsored by his department.
(b)The furnishing of services and facilities under this section shall be at fair and reasonable rates.
(c)The proceeds from furnishing services and facilities under this section shall be paid to the credit of the appropriation or fund out of which the services or facilities were supplied.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

1962 Act section 2633 is restated, without substantive change, to conform to the style adopted for title 10.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1982—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 97–258 substituted “section 1301(a) of title 31” for “section 3678 of the Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 628)”. 1980—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 96–513 substituted “section 3678 of the Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 628)” for “section 628 of title 31”. 1962—Pub. L. 87–651 amended section generally without substantive change to conform to the style adopted for the revision of this title.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1980 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 96–513 effective Dec. 12, 1980, see section 701(b)(3) of Pub. L. 96–513, set out as a note under section 101 of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

10 U.S.C. § 2633

Title 10Armed Forces

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73