Title 10 — Armed ForcesRelease 119-73
§8614 Apprehension of deserters and prisoners; operation of shore patrols
Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle C— - Navy and Marine Corps › Part PART IV— - GENERAL ADMINISTRATION › Chapter CHAPTER 861— - SECRETARY OF THE NAVY: MISCELLANEOUS POWERS AND DUTIES › § 8614
Summary
The Secretary of the Navy can use available funds to catch and turn over deserters, stragglers, and prisoners, and to run shore patrols. He can give this authority to other Navy personnel and may allow them to delegate it again.
Full Legal Text
Title 10, §8614
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(a)The Secretary of the Navy may make such expenditures out of available appropriations as he considers necessary to—
(1)apprehend and deliver deserters, stragglers, and prisoners; and
(2)operate shore patrols.
(b)The Secretary, to the extent he considers proper, may delegate the authority conferred by this section to any person in the Department of the Navy, with or without the authority to make successive redelegations.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Historical and Revision Notes
Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 721434 U.S.C. 606.Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 756, § 22, 60 Stat. 856. 5 U.S.C. 421g(d).Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 756, § 40(d), 60 Stat. 858. 5 U.S.C. 412a.Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 756, § 39, 60 Stat. 858. In subsection (a) the word “naval” is omitted as surplusage. In subsection (b) the words “except the authority to prescribe
Regulations
” are omitted, since 34 U.S.C. 606 contains no authority for the Secretary of the Navy to prescribe
Regulations
for the administration of that section.
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 7214 of this title as this section.
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. § 8614
Title 10 — Armed Forces
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73