Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable WatersRelease 119-73
§583 Payment of allowances, etc., incident to change of station of Engineer officers from appropriation for improvements
Title 33 › Chapter CHAPTER 12— - RIVER AND HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS GENERALLY › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - PAY AND ALLOWANCES; TRAVELING EXPENSES AND SUBSISTENCE › § 583
Summary
When Army Secretary finds a Corps officer's transfer is primarily for river or harbor improvement, travel pay may be paid from improvement funds.
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Title 33, §583
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When in the opinion of the Secretary of the Army the changes of a station of an officer of the Corps of Engineers is primarily in the interest of river and harbor improvement, the mileage and other allowances to which he may be entitled incident to such change of station may be paid from appropriations for such improvements.
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Change of Name
Department of War designated Department of the Army and title of Secretary of War changed to Secretary of the Army by section 205(a) of act
July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, 61 Stat. 501. section 205(a) of act
July 26, 1947, was repealed by section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 641. section 1 of act Aug. 10, 1956, enacted “Title 10, Armed Forces” which in sections 3010 to 3013 continued Department of the Army under administrative supervision of Secretary of the Army.
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33 U.S.C. § 583
Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73