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§8771 Quarters or other accommodations: to whom furnished

Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle C— - Navy and Marine Corps › Part PART IV— - GENERAL ADMINISTRATION › Chapter CHAPTER 877— - QUARTERS, UTILITIES, AND SERVICES › § 8771

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Navy can provide government housing and basic utilities (heat, light, water, and refrigeration) to active-duty members of the naval service, Coast Guard members when the Coast Guard is operating with the Navy, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration personnel serving with the Navy. The Secretary can also decide whether such housing counts as being "available" for other laws about housing assignment or pay instead of housing. The Secretary may give the job of providing the housing to other Navy Department officials, but only the Secretary can write the rules, and those officials can be allowed to pass the job on to others.

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Title 10, §8771

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(a)Under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy prescribes, public quarters including heat, light, water, and refrigeration may be furnished for personnel in the following categories who are on active duty:
(1)Members of the naval service.
(2)Members of the Coast Guard when it is operating as a service in the Navy.
(3)Members of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration serving with the Navy.
(b)The Secretary may determine in any case whether public quarters are available within the meaning of any provision of law relating to the assignment of or commutation for public quarters.
(c)The Secretary, to the extent he considers proper, may delegate the authority conferred by subsection (a), except the authority to prescribe regulations, to any person in the Department of the Navy, with or without authority to make successive redelegations.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 7571(a)34 U.S.C. 911a (less applicability to members on sea duty).Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 756, § 15 (less applicability to members on sea duty), 60 Stat. 854. 5 U.S.C. 421g(b).Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 756, § 40(b), 60 Stat. 858. 7571(b)34 U.S.C. 911.July 1, 1918, ch. 114, 40 Stat. 718 (4th par.). 7571(c)5 U.S.C. 412a.Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 756, § 39, 60 Stat. 858. In subsection (a) the words “including members of the Nurse Corps” are omitted as surplusage, and the definition of “naval personnel” in 5 U.S.C. 421g, which is applicable to this subsection, is executed. In subsection (b) the words “in any case whether public quarters are available” are substituted for the words “where and when there are no public quarters”. The words “for persons in the Navy and Marine Corps, or serving therewith” are omitted, since these classes of personnel for whom the Secretary makes the determination of availability are the same as those who may be furnished quarters under subsection (a).

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 7571 of this title as this section. 1980—Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 96–513 substituted “National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration” for “Environmental Science Services Administration”. 1966—Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 89–718 substituted “Environmental Science Services Administration” for “Coast and Geodetic Survey”.

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.

Effective Date

of 1980 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 96–513 effective Dec. 12, 1980, see section 701(b)(3) of Pub. L. 96–513, set out as a note under section 101 of this title.

Repeals

The directory language of, but not the amendment made by, Pub. L. 89–718, § 8(a), Nov. 2, 1966, 80 Stat. 1117, cited as a credit to this section, was repealed by Pub. L. 97–295, § 6(b), Oct. 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 1314.

Transfer of Functions

For transfer of authorities, functions, personnel, and assets of the Coast Guard, including the authorities and functions of the Secretary of Transportation relating thereto, to the Department of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see section 468(b), 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of November 25, 2002, as modified, set out as a note under section 542 of Title 6. Charges for Excess Energy Consumption; Deposit of Proceeds; Applicability; ImplementationAssessment of members for excess energy consumption in military family housing facilities, see section 507 of Pub. L. 95–82, title V, Aug. 1, 1977, 91 Stat. 372, set out as a note under section 4593 of this title.

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10 U.S.C. § 8771

Title 10Armed Forces

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Apr 6, 2026

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