Title 10 — Armed ForcesRelease 119-73not60
§8743 Employment of Aliens
Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle C— Navy and Marine Corps › Part IV— GENERAL ADMINISTRATION › Chapter 871— CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES › § 8743
Summary
The Navy may hire and pay a person who is not a U.S. citizen when the Secretary of the Navy decides that the person has special technical or scientific skills or experience the armed forces need. This is allowed only if those skills cannot be easily found in a U.S. citizen.
Full Legal Text
Title 10, §8743
Armed Forces — Source: USLM XML via OLRC
Laws prohibiting payment of compensation to a person who is not a citizen of the United States do not apply to a person whose employment by the Department of the Navy is determined by the Secretary of the Navy to be necessary to obtain for the armed forces the benefits of the special technical or scientific knowledge or experience possessed by that person and not readily obtainable from a citizen.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Historical and Revision Notes
Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 74735 U.S.C. 415b.Feb. 26, 1946, ch. 36, 60 Stat. 31. The word “Laws” is substituted for the words “Statutory provisions” for clarity. The words “armed forces” are substituted for the words “military services of the United States” for uniformity. The words “of the United States” at the end of the section are omitted as surplusage.
Editorial Notes
Prior Provisions
Amendments
2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 7473 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. § 8743
Title 10 — Armed Forces
Last Updated
Apr 3, 2026
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