Title 10 — Armed ForcesRelease 119-73
§8265 Mileage books: commutation tickets
Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle C— - Navy and Marine Corps › Part PART II— - PERSONNEL › Chapter CHAPTER 831— - MISCELLANEOUS RIGHTS AND BENEFITS › § 8265
Summary
The Secretary of the Navy can buy mileage books, commutation tickets, and other similar travel tickets and give them to people ordered to travel on official duty. Paying for those tickets before the travel happens does not count as an advance of public money under 31 U.S.C. 3324(a) and (b).
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Title 10, §8265
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The Secretary of the Navy may buy such mileage books, commutation tickets, and other similar transportation tickets as he considers necessary, and he may furnish them to persons ordered to perform travel on official business. Payment for those tickets before the travel is performed is not an advance of public money within the meaning of subsections (a) and (b) of section 3324 of title 31.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Historical and Revision Notes
Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 615434 U.S.C. 891.Apr. 27, 1904, ch. 1630, 33 Stat. 403 (6th par., 2d sentence). The words “to continue” and the words “upon their receipt in accordance with commercial usage” are omitted as surplusage. The word “persons” is substituted for the words “officers and others”.
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 6154 of this title as this section. 1984—Pub. L. 98–525 substituted “subsections (a) and (b) of section 3324” for “section 3324(a) and (b)”. 1982—Pub. L. 97–258 substituted “section 3324(a) and (b)” for “section 529”.
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.
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Citation
10 U.S.C. § 8265
Title 10 — Armed Forces
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73