10 U.S.C. § 18231: Purpose

Summary

Requires the government to buy, lease, build, expand, or fix up buildings needed for reserve military units to train, operate, and be maintained, including housing and dining. Those facilities should be shared by different reserve units when possible, and in war or emergency used by other military units or the United States as much as possible to save money and be efficient.

Title 10, §18231

Armed Forces, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

The purpose of this chapter is to provide for— (1)

(2)the joint use of those facilities by units of two or more of those reserve components, to the greatest practicable extent for efficiency and economy;

(3)the use of those facilities, in time of war or national emergency, by those units and other units of the armed forces, to the greatest practicable extent for efficiency and economy; and

(4)any other use of those facilities by the United States, in time of war or national emergency, to the greatest practicable extent for efficiency and economy.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 223150:881.Sept. 11, 1950, ch. 945, § 2, 64 Stat. 829. In clause (1), the words “units of” are omitted as surplusage. In clause (4), the words “United States” are substituted for the words “Federal Government”.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–337 renumbered section 2231 of this title as this section. 1957—Par. (1). Pub. L. 85–215 included troop housing and messing facilities.

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