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Title 10 — Armed ForcesRelease 119-73

§8776 Quarters: extension telephones

Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle C— - Navy and Marine Corps › Part PART IV— - GENERAL ADMINISTRATION › Chapter CHAPTER 877— - QUARTERS, UTILITIES, AND SERVICES › § 8776

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Under rules set by the Secretary of the Navy, government money can pay to install and use extension phones (not to cover personal long‑distance calls) that link public living quarters to the station switchboard for three groups: members of the naval service; Coast Guard members when the Coast Guard is operating as part of the Navy; and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration personnel serving with the Navy. The Secretary can, if he thinks it proper, let someone else in the Navy Department carry out this authority (but not the power to make the rules), and may allow that person to pass the authority on to others.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §8776

Armed Forces — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy appropriated funds may be used to pay the cost of installation and use, other than for personal long distance calls, of extension telephones connecting public quarters occupied by personnel in the following categories with the switchboards of their official stations:
(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, to the extent he considers proper, may delegate the authority conferred by this section, except the authority to prescribe regulations, 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) 757634 U.S.C. 915a.Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 756, § 4, 60 Stat. 853. 5 U.S.C. 412a.Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 756, § 39, 60 Stat. 858. 5 U.S.C. 421g(d).Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 756, § 40(d), 60 Stat. 858. In subsection (a) the words “appropriated funds” are substituted for the words “naval appropriations”, and the definition of “naval personnel” in 5 U.S.C. 421g, which is applicable to this section, is executed. In executing this definition the words “while on active duty” are omitted as unnecessary, since a member not on active duty would not have an official station within the meaning of this section.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 7576 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.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

10 U.S.C. § 8776

Title 10 — Armed Forces

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73