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§7483 Transportation and subsistence during travel

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Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Pays for travel and food-and-lodging for a person attending a related school or camp. The government can either provide transportation and pay subsistence, provide transportation itself and pay 1 cent a mile for subsistence, or pay a travel allowance of 5 cents a mile. The payment for the return trip may be given ahead of time. Distance is figured by the shortest usual route, within area limits the Secretary of the Army sets, from the approved starting point to the school or camp and back.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §7483

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(a)There may be furnished to a person attending a school or camp established under section 7481 of this title, for travel to and from that school or camp—
(1)transportation and subsistence;
(2)transportation in kind and a subsistence allowance of one cent a mile; or
(3)a travel allowance of five cents a mile.
(b)The travel allowance for the return trip may be paid in advance.
(c)For the purposes of this section, distance is computed by the shortest usually traveled route, within such territorial limits as the Secretary of the Army may prescribe, from the authorized starting point to the school or camp and return.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 441310:442 (words between 1st and 3d semicolons, less 47 words after 1st semicolon and less 72 words before 3d semicolon, of 1st sentence).
June 3, 1916, ch. 134, § 47d (words between 1st and 3d semicolons, less 47 words after 1st semicolon, and less 72 words before 3d semicolon, of 1st sentence); added
June 4, 1920, ch. 227, § 34 (words between 1st and 3d semicolons, less 47 words after 1st semicolon, and less 72 words before 3d semicolon, of 1st sentence of last par.), 41 Stat. 779; Mar. 9, 1928, ch. 161, 45 Stat. 251. In subsection (a), the introductory clause is inserted for clarity. The words “at the option of the Secretary of the Army” are omitted as surplusage. In subsection (b), the words “of the actual performance of the same” are omitted as surplusage. Subsection (c) is substituted for the words “the most usual and direct route within such limits as to territory as the Secretary of the Army may prescribe * * * for the distance by the shortest usually traveled route from the places from which they are authorized to proceed to the camp, and for the return travel thereto”.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232, § 808(c)(2), renumbered section 4413 of this title as this section. Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 115–232, § 809(a), substituted “section 7481” for “section 4411” in introductory provisions.

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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.

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Citation

10 U.S.C. § 7483

Title 10Armed Forces

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

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