Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-102
§8621 Acceptance and Care of Gifts to Vessels
Title 10 › Subtitle C — Navy and Marine Corps › PART IV — GENERAL ADMINISTRATION › CHAPTER 861 — SECRETARY OF THE NAVY: MISCELLANEOUS POWERS AND DUTIES › § 8621
Summary
The Navy Secretary may accept customary gifts to ships (like silver, flags, or books) and must pay the costs to care for them from ships' maintenance and operation funds.
Full Legal Text
Title 10, §8621
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The Secretary of the Navy may accept and care for such gifts of silver, colors, books, or other articles of equipment or furniture as, in accordance with custom, are made to vessels of the Navy. Necessary expenses incident to the care of gifts that are accepted shall be paid from the appropriation for the maintenance and operation of vessels.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Historical and Revision Notes
Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 72215 U.S.C. 419.May 20, 1908, ch. 182, 35 Stat. 171. The words “in the form” and “by States, municipalities, or otherwise” are omitted as surplusage. The words “the appropriation for the maintenance and operation of vessels” are substituted for the words “the appropriation ‘Equipment of Vessels’ ” to identify by a general description, rather than by a specific appropriation title, the appropriation authorized to be used.
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 7221 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.
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Citation
10 U.S.C. § 8621
Title 10, Armed Forces
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102