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Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-102

§2551 Equipment and Barracks: National Veterans’ Organizations

Title 10 › Subtitle A — General Military Law › PART IV — SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROPERTY › CHAPTER 152 — ISSUE OF SUPPLIES, SERVICES, AND FACILITIES › § 2551

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of a military department may lend cots, blankets, pillows, mattresses, bed sacks, and similar supplies, and may allow use of unoccupied barracks, to any recognized national veterans’ organization for its national or state conventions or for national youth athletic or recreation tournaments, under rules the Secretary sets. The property can be delivered on terms the Secretary and the organization agree to. The veterans’ group must pay any delivery, return, repair, or replacement costs the Secretary decides are needed. The Secretary must also require a good and sufficient bond to ensure the property is returned in good condition.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §2551

Armed Forces, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)The Secretary of a military department, under conditions prescribed by him, may lend cots, blankets, pillows, mattresses, bed sacks, and other supplies under the jurisdiction of that department to any recognized national veterans’ organization for use at its national or state convention or national youth athletic or recreation tournament. He may, under conditions prescribed by him, also permit the organization to use unoccupied barracks under the jurisdiction of that department for such an occasion.
(b)Property lent under subsection (a) may be delivered on terms and at times agreed upon by the Secretary of the military department concerned and representatives of the veterans’ organization. However, the veterans’ organization must defray any expense incurred by the United States in the delivery, return, rehabilitation, or replacement of that property, as determined by the Secretary.
(c)The Secretary of the military department concerned shall require a good and sufficient bond for the return in good condition of property lent or used under subsection (a).

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 2541(a)2541(b)5:150m.5:150n.Aug. 1, 1949, ch. 372, 63 Stat. 483. 2541(c)5:150o. In subsection (a), the word “may” is substituted for the words “are authorized to * * * at their discretion”. The word “supplies” is substituted for the words “articles or equipment”. The words “available” and “as may be needed” are omitted as surplusage. The words “under the jurisdiction of that department” are substituted for the words “of the Army, Navy, or Air Force” and “under their respective jurisdictions”. In subsection (b), the words “prior to any such conventions or national youth athletic or recreation tournaments” are omitted as surplusage. In subsection (c), the words “require of” are substituted for the words “take from”.

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 2551 was renumbered section 2561 of this title.

Amendments

2000—Pub. L. 106–398 renumbered section 2541 of this title as this section.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

10 U.S.C. § 2551

Title 10, Armed Forces

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102