Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-102
§8243 Fixing Cost on Certain Vessels and Stations
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Summary
The Secretary of the Navy can set the price for each ration (meal) in a ship's or station's mess if he decides it's better not to operate that mess using the quantity allowances given in section 8242.
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Title 10, §8243
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If the Secretary of the Navy considers that it is undesirable to administer the mess on any ship or at any station under the quantity allowance prescribed in section 8242 of this title, he may fix the cost of each ration for that mess.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Historical and Revision Notes
Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 608334 U.S.C. 902d.Mar. 2, 1933, ch. 184, § 4, 47 Stat. 1423; Aug. 3, 1951, ch. 287, 65 Stat. 151. The words “the cost of each ration for that mess” are substituted for the words “the monetary limit of the cost of ration aboard such ships and at such stations” to make it clear that the figure fixed by the Secretary of the Navy under this section is the amount the mess may spend per day for food for each man subsisting at the mess.
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 6083 of this title as this section and substituted “section 8242” for “section 6082”.
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.
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Citation
10 U.S.C. § 8243
Title 10, Armed Forces
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102