Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-110

§2262 Department of Defense Conferences: Collection of Fees to Cover Department of Defense Costs

Title 10 › Subtitle A — General Military Law › PART IV — SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROPERTY › CHAPTER 134 — MISCELLANEOUS ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS › SUBCHAPTER II — MISCELLANEOUS ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY › § 2262

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Defense Department can charge fees to people or businesses who take part in its conferences, seminars, exhibitions, symposiums, or similar meetings. The Department can collect those fees itself or hire someone to collect them, and it can take the fees before the event starts. The money collected goes back to the same DoD budget that paid for the event and can be used to pay or repay the Department’s conference costs. If the fees collected are more than the actual costs, the extra must be sent to the U.S. Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §2262

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(a)Authority to Collect Fees.—

(1)The Secretary of Defense may collect fees from any individual or commercial participant in a conference, seminar, exhibition, symposium, or similar meeting conducted by the Department of Defense (in this section referred to collectively as a “conference”).

(2)The Secretary may provide for the collection of fees under this section directly or by contract. The fees may be collected in advance of a conference.

(b)Use of Collected Fees.—

Amounts collected under subsection (a) with respect to a conference shall be credited to the appropriation or account from which the costs of the conference are paid and shall be available to pay the costs of the Department of Defense with respect to the conference or to reimburse the Department for costs incurred with respect to the conference.

(c)Treatment of Excess Amounts.—

In the event the total amount of fees collected under subsection (a) with respect to a conference exceeds the actual costs of the Department of Defense with respect to the conference, the amount of such excess shall be deposited into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.

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Amendments

2017—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 115–91 struck out subsec. (d) which required annual reports on conferences, including information on costs and fees collected.

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Citation

10 U.S.C. § 2262

Title 10, Armed Forces

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110