Title 10 — Armed ForcesRelease 119-73not60
§7627 Supplies: Educational Institutions
Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle B— Army › Part IV— SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT › Chapter 769— SALE OF SERVICEABLE MATERIAL › § 7627
Summary
The Army can sell its supplies and military publications to any school that has an Army officer assigned as a professor of military science and tactics so the school's military students can use them. The Secretary of the Army sets the rules for these sales, and the school must pay cash.
Full Legal Text
Title 10, §7627
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Under such regulations as the Secretary of the Army may prescribe, supplies and military publications procured for the Army may be sold to any educational institution to which an officer of the Army is detailed as professor of military science and tactics, for the use of its military students. Sales under this section shall be for cash.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Historical and Revision Notes
Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 462710:1179 (less proviso).July 17, 1914, ch. 149 (less proviso), 38 Stat. 512. The words “procured for” are substituted for the words “as are furnished to”. The words “stores * * * matériel of war” are omitted as covered by the word “supplies”. The words “the price listed to the Army” are omitted to reflect Title IV of the National Security Act of 1947, as amended (63 Stat. 585), which authorized the Secretary of Defense to prescribe
Regulations
governing the use and sale of certain inventories at cost, including applicable administrative expenses. (See opinion of the Assistant General Counsel (Fiscal Matters) of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, January 4, 1955.)
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 4627 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
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Citation
10 U.S.C. § 7627
Title 10 — Armed Forces
Last Updated
Apr 3, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60