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§8766 Loan or Gift of Articles to Ships’ Sponsors and Donors

Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle C— Navy and Marine Corps › Part IV— GENERAL ADMINISTRATION › Chapter 875— DISPOSAL OF OBSOLETE OR SURPLUS MATERIAL › § 8766

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Navy may, under rules he sets and without costing the United States anything, lend or give certain items. He can give a ship’s sponsor the ship’s nameplate or other small things that have little monetary value or are kept for sentimental reasons. He can also lend or give any state, group, or organization named in section 8765 articles, materials, or equipment the ship provided, including silver service.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §8766

Armed Forces — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

The Secretary of the Navy, under regulations prescribed by him and without expense to the United States, may lend or give—
(1)to the sponsor of a vessel the name plate or any small article of negligible or sentimental value from that vessel; and
(2)to any State, group, or organization named in section 8765 of this title any article, material, or equipment, including silver service, given by it.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 754634 U.S.C. 546h (less applicability to 34 U.S.C. 546g).Aug. 7, 1946, ch. 804, § 3 (less applicability to § 2), 60 Stat. 898. The words “the sponsor” are substituted for the words “any individual who sponsored” for brevity. The word “ship” and the word “person” are omitted as surplusage. The words “the loans or gifts described in this section shall be made” are omitted as unnecessary, and the words “under

Regulations

prescribed by him” are substituted for the words “subject to such

Rules and Regulations

as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy” for brevity.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232, § 807(d)(8), renumbered section 7546 of this title as this section. Par. (2). Pub. L. 115–232, § 809(a), substituted “section 8765” for “section 7545”.

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

Citations & Metadata

Citation

10 U.S.C. § 8766

Title 10 — Armed Forces

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

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