Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-102

§2785 Remittance Addresses: Regulation of Alterations

Title 10 › Subtitle A — General Military Law › PART IV — SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROPERTY › CHAPTER 165 — ACCOUNTABILITY AND RESPONSIBILITY › § 2785

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Defense, through the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller), must make rules to control changes to where payments are sent. The rules must stop any DoD person who prepares a payment from changing the payment address given by the official who approved or requested it. An address can be changed only if the payment recipient asks for it and a DoD person who is allowed to make such changes — and who is not the payment preparer — makes the change.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §2785

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The Secretary of Defense, acting through the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller), shall prescribe regulations setting forth controls on alteration of remittance addresses. Those regulations shall ensure that—
(1)a remittance address for a disbursement that is provided by an officer or employee of the Department of Defense authorizing or requesting the disbursement is not altered by any officer or employee of the department authorized to prepare the disbursement; and
(2)a remittance address for a disbursement is altered only if the alteration—
(A)is requested by the person to whom the disbursement is authorized to be remitted; and
(B)is made by an officer or employee authorized to do so who is not an officer or employee referred to in paragraph (1).

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Regulations

Pub. L. 106–65, div. A, title IX, § 933(b)(2), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 730, provided that: “

Regulations

under section 2785 of title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection (a), shall be prescribed not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act [Oct. 5, 1999].”

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Citation

10 U.S.C. § 2785

Title 10, Armed Forces

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102