§18231 — Title 10 Armed Forces | U.S. Code

Summary

Provides for getting or improving facilities needed for training, operating, and maintaining the reserve forces, including troop housing and dining. Those facilities can be shared by reserve units and, in war or a national emergency, used by other military units or for United States needs as practical to save money and be efficient.

Title 10, §18231

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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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