§3074 — Title 33 Navigation and Navigable Waters | U.S. Code

Summary

Officers and crew of Administration ships may buy commissary and quartermaster items from the Armed Forces at the same prices given to military officers and enlisted members. The Secretary can buy food, stores, uniforms, gear, and similar items for sale on ships and at shore stations to uniformed personnel and staff, and must set rules for those sales. Money from the sales should, as much as possible, repay the accounts charged without regard to fiscal year. The same buying rights also apply to surviving spouses and others the Secretary names.

Title 33, §3074

Navigation and Navigable Waters — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Commissioned officers, ships’ officers, and members of crews of vessels of the Administration shall be permitted to purchase commissary and quartermaster supplies as far as available from the Armed Forces at the prices charged officers and enlisted members of the Armed Forces.

(b)The Secretary may purchase ration supplies for messes, stores, uniforms, accouterments, and related equipment for sale aboard ship and shore stations of the Administration to members of the uniformed services and to personnel assigned to such ships or shore stations. Sales shall be in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary, and proceeds therefrom shall, as far as is practicable, fully reimburse the appropriations charged without regard to fiscal year.

(c)Rights extended to members of the uniformed services in this section are extended to their surviving spouses and to such others as are designated by the Secretary concerned.

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 857–4 of this title prior to repeal by Pub. L. 107–372.

§3074 Commissary Privileges

Summary

Title 33, §3074

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

Citations & Metadata