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§7625 Ordnance Property: Officers of Armed Forces; Civilian Employees of Army; American National Red Cross; Educational Institutions; Homes for Veterans’ Orphans

Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle B— Army › Part IV— SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT › Chapter 769— SALE OF SERVICEABLE MATERIAL › § 7625

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Army Secretary may allow Army units to sell ordnance to officers of other services, to civilian Army employees, and to the American Red Cross, and may let schools and state military orphan homes buy ordnance to maintain what was issued to them.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §7625

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(a)Any branch, office, or officer designated by the Secretary of the Army may sell articles of ordnance property to officers of other armed forces for their use in the service, in the same manner as those articles are sold to officers of the Army.
(b)Under such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, ordnance stores may be sold to civilian employees of the Army and to the American National Red Cross.
(c)Articles of ordnance property may be sold to educational institutions and to State soldiers’ and sailors’ orphans’ homes for maintaining the ordnance and ordnance stores issued to those institutions and homes.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 4625(a) 4625(b)4625(c)34:540.50:70.50:71.50:63.Mar. 3, 1909, ch. 252 (5th par. under “National Trophy and Medals for Rifle Contest”), 35 Stat. 750. Mar. 3, 1909, ch. 252 (8th par. under “National Trophy and Medals for Rifle Contests”), 35 Stat. 751;
June 28, 1950, ch. 383, § 402(h), 64 Stat. 273.
May 11, 1908, ch. 163 (4th par. under “National Trophy and Medals for Rifle Contests”), 35 Stat. 125. In subsection (a), the words “other armed forces” are substituted for the words “the Navy and Marine Corps”, in 34:540 and 50:70, since those sales may be made to officers of the Coast Guard under section 114(c) of title 14.

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 7625, act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 473, related to settlement of claims for damage to or loss of privately owned property, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 87–769, § 1(2)(A), Oct. 9, 1962, 76 Stat. 768. See section 2736 of this title.

Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 4625 of this title as this section.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2018 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of

Amendments

and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

10 U.S.C. § 7625

Title 10Armed Forces

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

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