Title 10 — Armed ForcesRelease 119-73
§2739 Amounts recovered from third parties for loss or damage to personal property shipped or stored at Government expense: crediting to appropriations
Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle A— - General Military Law › Part PART IV— - SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROPERTY › Chapter CHAPTER 163— - MILITARY CLAIMS › § 2739
Summary
When a military department recovers money from a third party for property damage the department already paid, that money must go into the appropriation for those claims and is available for the same uses and period. A "qualifying" collection is an amount recovered under 31 U.S.C. 3711, 3716, 3717, or 3721 from a third party for loss during shipment or storage at Government expense that the department paid.
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Title 10, §2739
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(a)Any qualifying military department third-party collection shall be credited to the appropriate current appropriation. Amounts so credited shall be merged with the funds in that appropriation and shall be available for the same period and purposes as the funds with which merged.
(b)For purposes of subsection (a), the appropriate current appropriation with respect to a qualifying military department third-party collection is the appropriation currently available, as of the date of the collection, for the payment of claims by that military department for loss or damage of personal property shipped or stored at Government expense.
(c)For purposes of subsection (a), a qualifying military department third-party collection is any amount that a military department collects under section 3711, 3716, 3717, and 3721 of title 31 from a third party for a loss or damage to personal property that occurred during shipment or storage of the property at Government expense and for which the Secretary of the military department paid the owner in settlement of a claim.
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Effective Date
Pub. L. 105–261, div. A, title X, § 1010(b), Oct. 17, 1998, 112 Stat. 2117, provided that: “Section 2739 of title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection (a), applies with respect to amounts collected by a military department on or after the date of the enactment of this Act [Oct. 17, 1998].”
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10 U.S.C. § 2739
Title 10 — Armed Forces
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73