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§8474 United States Naval Academy Museum Fund: references to Fund

Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle C— - Navy and Marine Corps › Part PART III— - EDUCATION AND TRAINING › Chapter CHAPTER 853— - UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY › § 8474

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

References to the Naval Academy Museum Fund now mean the Gift and Museum Fund (section 8473).

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §8474

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Any reference in a law, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United States to the United States Naval Academy Museum Fund formerly maintained under this section shall be deemed to refer to the United States Naval Academy Gift and Museum Fund maintained under section 8473 of this title.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 6974(a)34 U.S.C. 1118.Mar. 26, 1938, ch. 52, § 3, 52 Stat. 119. 6974(b)34 U.S.C. 1119.Mar. 26, 1938, ch. 52, § 4, 52 Stat. 119. 6974(c)34 U.S.C. 1120.Mar. 26, 1938, ch. 52, § 5, 52 Stat. 119.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 6974 of this title as this section and substituted “section 8473” for “section 6973”. 2000—Pub. L. 106–398 amended section catchline and text generally. Prior to amendment, section related to acceptance and administration of gifts, bequests, and loans for the benefit of the Naval Academy Museum.

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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. Consolidation of Naval Academy General Gift Fund and Naval Academy Museum Fund Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [[div. A], title IX, § 942(b)], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A–241, provided that: “(1) The Secretary of the Navy shall transfer all amounts in the United States Naval Academy Museum Fund established by section 6974 [now 8474] of title 10, United States Code, to the gift fund maintained for the benefit and use of the United States Naval Academy under section 6973 [now 8473] of such title. Upon completing the transfer, the Secretary shall close the United States Naval Academy Museum Fund. “(2) Amounts transferred under this subsection shall be merged with other amounts in the gift fund to which transferred and shall be available for the purposes for which amounts in that gift fund are available.”

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Citation

10 U.S.C. § 8474

Title 10Armed Forces

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

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