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§7437 Chaplain

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Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

President appoints clergyman as Academy chaplain for four years. Chaplain gets housing equal to lieutenant colonel basic allowance, fuel and light, and may be reappointed.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §7437

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There shall be a chaplain at the Academy, who must be a clergyman, appointed by the President for a term of four years. The chaplain is entitled to a monthly housing allowance in the same amount as the basic allowance for housing allowed to a lieutenant colonel, and to fuel and light for quarters in kind. The chaplain may be reappointed.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

1956 Act Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 433710:1083.10:1137.Feb. 18, 1896, ch. 22 (proviso), 29 Stat. 8;
May 16, 1928, ch. 579, 45 Stat. 573;
June 2, 1945, ch. 172, 59 Stat. 230. The words “The chaplain may be reappointed” are substituted for the words “and said chaplain shall be eligible for reappointment for an additional term or terms”. The figures “$5,482.80” and “$6,714” are substituted for the figures “$4,000” and “$5,000” to reflect increases in the rates of salary of that office effected by the Federal Employees Pay Act of 1945, 59 Stat. 295, the Federal Employees Pay Act of 1946, 60 Stat. 216, the Postal Rate Revision and Federal Employees Salary Act of 1948, 62 Stat. 1260, and the Classification Act of 1949, 63 Stat. 954. 1962 ActThe change reflects the opinion of the Assistant General Counsel, Civil Service Commission (GC: JHF:fz,
May 4, 1959), that those parts of section 4337 and 9337 of title 10 that relate to the salaries of the chaplains at the United States Military Academy and the United States Air Force Academy were superseded by the Classification Act of 1949 (5 U.S.C. 1071 et seq.). While the positions of chaplain at those Academies are not specifically covered by the Act, the Act has been determined to apply to those positions in accordance with section 203 thereof (5 U.S.C. 1083).

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 7437 was renumbered section 8737 of this title.

Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 4337 of this title as this section. 2001—Pub. L. 107–107 substituted “a monthly housing allowance in the same amount as the basic allowance for housing allowed to a lieutenant colonel” for “the same allowances for public quarters as are allowed to a captain”. 1962—Pub. L. 87–651 struck out provisions which prescribed the salary of chaplain on appointment and reappointment.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2018 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of

Amendments

and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.

Effective Date

of 2001 Amendment Pub. L. 107–107, div. A, title V, § 540(b), Dec. 28, 2001, 115 Stat. 1109, provided that: “The amendment made by subsection (a) [amending this section] shall take effect on the first day of the first month beginning on or after the date of the enactment of this Act [Dec. 28, 2001].”

Executive Documents

Delegation of Functions Functions of President under this section delegated to Secretary of Defense, see section 1(5) of Ex. Ord. No. 11390, Jan. 22, 1968, 33 F.R. 841, set out as a note under section 301 of Title 3, The President.

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Citation

10 U.S.C. § 7437

Title 10Armed Forces

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

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