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§8747 Transportation of Dependents and Household Effects of Civilian Personnel Stationed Outside the United States: Payment in Lieu of Transportation

Title 10 › Subtitle C — Navy and Marine Corps › PART IV — GENERAL ADMINISTRATION › CHAPTER 871 — CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES › § 8747

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Civilian employees of the Navy who work outside the United States may have their family members and household goods moved from the overseas location to places the employee or family picks, and back from those places to the employee’s new duty station. The Secretary of the Navy decides who can get this. Packing and unpacking are included. Moves can happen before or after the employee is relieved, and can use Government or commercial carriers. Instead of moving family in kind, the Secretary can let the employee be paid after travel for the actual commercial transportation costs, including any taxes for parts not provided by the Government. Available travel and transportation funds may pay for these costs.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §8747

Armed Forces, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)When civilian employees of the Department of the Navy are located at duty stations outside the United States, the dependents and household effects of such personnel may be transported—
(1)from the locations outside the United States to locations designated by such personnel or their dependents; and
(2)from those designated locations to the duty stations to which the personnel are ordered.
The Secretary of the Navy may determine the civilian employees whose dependents and household effects may be transported under this section.
(b)Authority to transport household effects under this section includes authority to pack and unpack those effects.
(c)Transportation of dependents and household effects is authorized under this section either before or after orders are issued relieving the civilian concerned from the duty station outside the United States. The transportation may be by Government or commercial facilities.
(d)In place of the transportation in kind authorized for dependents, the Secretary may authorize the payment, after the travel has been completed, of an amount equal to the commercial transportation costs, including taxes if paid, of all parts of the travel for which transportation in kind was not furnished.
(e)Current appropriations available for travel and transportation may be used for expenditures under this section.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 747737 U.S.C. 112c.Feb. 18, 1946, ch. 30 (3d par.), 60 Stat. 20; Oct. 12, 1949, ch. 681, § 524, 63 Stat. 836. In subsection (a) the words “without regard to rank or grade” and “or subsequent to the discharge or release of such personnel from active service” are omitted as applicable only to members of the naval service. The Act of
February 18, 1946, 60 Stat. 20, applied to both civilian and naval personnel and was amended by the Act of
October 12, 1949, ch. 681, § 524, by deleting therefrom all reference to naval personnel. The words “the continental limits of” and “or in Alaska” are omitted as covered by the term “outside the United States”.

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 8747 was renumbered section 9277 of this title.

Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 7477 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. § 8747

Title 10, Armed Forces

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110