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Title 10 — Armed ForcesRelease 119-73

§2787 Reports of survey

Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle A— - General Military Law › Part PART IV— - SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROPERTY › Chapter CHAPTER 165— - ACCOUNTABILITY AND RESPONSIBILITY › § 2787

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Officers and DoD civilian employees chosen under DoD rules can handle reports and claim forms when U.S. property under DoD control is lost, spoiled, becomes unfit or unsuitable, destroyed, or damaged. Those decisions are final except when someone is found to owe money. A finding that a person must pay is not final until approved by an official picked by the head of the relevant military department, combatant command, or defense agency who has authority over that person; that approver must be an armed‑force officer or a DoD civilian. The Secretary of Defense must write rules to carry out this.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §2787

Armed Forces — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Under regulations prescribed pursuant to subsection (c), any officer of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Space Force or any civilian employee of the Department of Defense designated in accordance with those regulations may act upon reports of surveys and vouchers pertaining to the loss, spoilage, unserviceability, unsuitability, or destruction of, or damage to, property of the United States under the control of the Department of Defense.
(b)(1)Action taken under subsection (a) is final except as provided in paragraph (2).
(2)An action holding a person pecuniarily liable for loss, spoilage, destruction, or damage is not final until approved by a person designated to do so by the Secretary of a military department, commander of a combatant command, or Director of a Defense Agency, as the case may be, who has jurisdiction of the person held pecuniarily liable. The person designated to provide final approval shall be an officer of an armed force, or a civilian employee, under the jurisdiction of the official making the designation.
(c)The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe regulations to carry out this section.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2021—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 116–283 substituted “Marine Corps, or Space Force” for “or Marine Corps”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Pub. L. 107–314, div. A, title X, § 1006(d), Dec. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 2633, provided that: “The

Amendments

made by this section [enacting this section, amending section 1007 of Title 37, Pay and Allowances of the Uniformed Services, and repealing section 4835 and 9835 of this title] shall apply with respect to the loss, spoilage, unserviceability, unsuitability, or destruction of, or damage to, property of the United States under the control of the Department of Defense occurring on or after the

Effective Date

of

Regulations

prescribed pursuant to section 2787 of title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection (a).”

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

10 U.S.C. § 2787

Title 10 — Armed Forces

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73