Title 10 — Armed ForcesRelease 119-73
§9842 Settlement of accounts of line officers
Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle D— - Air Force and Space Force › Part PART IV— - SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT › Chapter CHAPTER 983— - ACCOUNTABILITY AND RESPONSIBILITY › § 9842
Summary
The Comptroller General must pay Air or Space Force line officers the pay they are owed even if they lack property records or reports when that loss was caused by being a prisoner or by a war accident or casualty.
Full Legal Text
Title 10, §9842
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The Comptroller General shall settle the account of a line officer of the Air Force or the Space Force for pay due the officer even if the officer cannot account for property entrusted to the officer or cannot make a monthly report or return, when the Comptroller General is satisfied that the inability to account for property or make a report or return was the result of the officer having been a prisoner, or of an accident or casualty of war.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Historical and Revision Notes
Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 984231:44 (1st sentence).
June 10, 1921, ch. 18, § 304 (1st par. 1st sentence), 42 Stat. 24. 31:95.R.S. § 278. The section is made applicable to the Air Force by section 207(a) and (f) of the Act of
July 26, 1947 (ch. 343, 61 Stat. 502). For comparable provisions that apply to the Army, see the revision note for 10:4842.
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2021—Pub. L. 116–283 inserted “or the Space Force” after “Air Force”.
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Citation
10 U.S.C. § 9842
Title 10 — Armed Forces
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73