Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle C— - Navy and Marine Corps › Part PART IV— - GENERAL ADMINISTRATION › Chapter CHAPTER 863— - NAVAL VESSELS › § 8686
The Secretary of the Navy may help an organization with the transfer of a decommissioned Navy ship or shipboard gear. That help can cover transfers done under sections 2572, 8676, 8677, or 8765 of this title or under other legal authority. The rule applies to ships that the Navy owns, keeps at a Navy site, and does not use anymore, and to ship equipment on those ships when both are being given to a recipient the Secretary or law names. The Secretary can require the recipient to pay back the Navy for the help. Money repaid is put into the Navy’s operation and maintenance fund for the office that manages inactive ships, merged with other money in that account, and used for the same purposes and time period.
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10 U.S.C. § 8686
Title 10 — Armed Forces
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Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73