Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-110

§2892 Maintenance Work Order System for Housing Units

Title 10 › Subtitle A — General Military Law › PART IV — SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROPERTY › CHAPTER 169 — MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AND MILITARY FAMILY HOUSING › SUBCHAPTER V — OVERSIGHT OF LANDLORDS AND PROTECTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES FOR TENANTS OF PRIVATIZED MILITARY HOUSING › § 2892

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Require each housing landlord to use an electronic work order system to track all maintenance requests for the unit. The Secretary of Defense must make landlords give access to that system to housing office staff at the installation, to the installation’s engineer command or center for the military department, and to any other DoD personnel the Secretary finds necessary. Tenants must also be able to access the system to at least see the status and progress of their work orders.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §2892

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(a)Electronic Work Order System Required.—
The Secretary of Defense shall require that each landlord of a housing unit have an electronic work order system to track all maintenance requests relating to the housing unit.
(b)Access by Department Personnel.—
The Secretary of Defense shall require each landlord of a housing unit to provide access to the maintenance work order system of the landlord relating to the housing unit to the following persons:
(1)Personnel of the housing management office at the installation for which the housing unit is provided.
(2)Personnel of the installation and engineer command or center of the military department concerned.
(3)Such other personnel of the Department of Defense as the Secretary determines necessary.
(c)Access by Tenants.—
The Secretary of Defense shall require each landlord of a housing unit to provide access to the maintenance work order system of the landlord relating to the housing unit to the tenant of the housing unit to permit the tenant, at a minimum, to track the status and progress of work orders for maintenance requests relating to the housing unit.

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Amendments

2019—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 116–92, § 3018, added subsec. (c).

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10 U.S.C. § 2892

Title 10, Armed Forces

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110