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10 U.S.C. § 2851a — Supervision of military housing by Chief Housing Officer
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**(a) In General.—** The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations, and Environment shall serve as the Chief Housing Officer, who shall oversee family housing and military unaccompanied housing under the jurisdiction of the Department of Defense or acquired or constructed under subchapter IV of this chapter (in this section referred to as “covered housing units”).
**(b) Principal Duties.—**
(1) The Chief Housing Officer shall oversee all aspects of the provision of covered housing units, including the following:
(A) Creation and standardization of policies and processes regarding covered housing units.
(B) Oversight of the administration of any Department of Defense-wide policies regarding covered housing units, to include, in coordination with the Secretaries of the military departments, the housing documents developed pursuant to [section 2890 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2890&num=0&edition=prelim) entitled Military Housing Privatization Initiative Tenant Bill of Rights and Military Housing Privatization Initiative Tenant Responsibilities.
(2) The duties specified in paragraph (1) may not be further delegated.
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**(a) In General.—** The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations, and Environment shall serve as the Chief Housing Officer, who shall oversee family housing and military unaccompanied housing under the jurisdiction of the Department of Defense or acquired or constructed under subchapter IV of this chapter (in this section referred to as “covered housing units”).
**(b) Principal Duties.—**
(1) The Chief Housing Officer shall oversee all aspects of the provision of covered housing units, including the following:
(A) Creation and standardization of policies and processes regarding covered housing units.
(B) Oversight of the administration of any Department of Defense-wide policies regarding covered housing units, to include, in coordination with the Secretaries of the military departments, the housing documents developed pursuant to [section 2890 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2890&num=0&edition=prelim) entitled Military Housing Privatization Initiative Tenant Bill of Rights and Military Housing Privatization Initiative Tenant Responsibilities.
(2) The duties specified in paragraph (1) may not be further delegated.
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**(a) Development of Tenant Bill of Rights and Tenant Responsibilities Documents.—**
(1) The Secretary of Defense shall develop two separate documents, to be known as the Military Housing Privatization Initiative Tenant Bill of Rights and the Military Housing Privatization Initiative Tenant Responsibilities, for tenants of housing units.
(2) The Secretary of each military department shall ensure that the housing documents are attached to each lease agreement for a housing unit.
(3) The rights and responsibilities contained in the housing documents are not intended to be exclusive. The omission of a tenant right or responsibility shall not be construed to deny the existence of such a right or responsibility for tenants.
(4) Each contract between the Secretary concerned and a landlord shall incorporate the housing documents and guarantee the rights and responsibilities of tenants who reside in housing units covered by the contract.
(5) The Secretary of Defense shall develop the housing documents in coordination with the Secretaries of the military departments.
**(b) Elements of Tenant Bill of Rights.—** At a minimum, the Military Housing Privatization Initiative Tenant Bill of Rights shall address the following rights of tenants of housing units:
(1) The right to reside in a housing unit and community that meets applicable health and environmental standards.
(2) The right to reside in a housing unit that has working fixtures, appliances, and utilities and to reside in a community with well-maintained common areas and amenity spaces.
(3) The right to be provided with a maintenance history of the prospective housing unit before signing a lease, as provided in [section 2892a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2
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TITLE 10—ARMED FORCES
§ 2851a
military construction project or military family
housing project for which, as of the end of the
most recent fiscal year, the estimated comple-
tion date is more than 1 year later than the
completion date proposed at the time the con-
tract for the project was awarded.
(Added Pub. L. 97–214, § 2(a), July 12, 1982, 96
Stat. 163; amended Pub. L. 109–163, div. B, title
XXVIII, § 2803(a), (c), Jan. 6, 2006, 119 Stat. 3505,
3506; Pub. L. 111–383, div. B, title XXVIII, § 2801,
Jan. 7, 2011, 124 Stat. 4458; Pub. L. 115–91, div. B,
title XXVIII, § 2822, Dec. 12, 2017, 131 Stat. 1855;
Pub. L. 117–81, div. B, title XXVIII, § 2801(a), Dec.
27, 2021, 135 Stat. 2184; Pub. L. 117–263, div. B,
title XXVIII, § 2806(a), Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat.
2995.)
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AMENDMENTS
2022—Subsecs. (d), (e). Pub. L. 117–263 added subsec.
(d) and redesignated former subsec. (d) as (e).
2021—Subsec. (c)(1)(E). Pub. L. 117–81, § 2801(a)(2),
added subpar. (E). Former subpar. (E) redesignated (F).
Subsec. (c)(1)(F). Pub. L. 117–81, § 2801(a)(1), (3), redes-
ignated subpar. (E) as (F) and inserted ‘‘, military de-
partment Facilities Sustainment, Restoration, and
Modernization project,’’ after ‘‘construction project’’.
2017—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 115–91 added subsec. (d).
2011—Subsec. (c)(1). Pub. L. 111–383, § 2801(c)(1), sub-
stituted ‘‘that will permit a person’’ for ‘‘that, when
activated by a person authorized under paragraph (3),
will permit the person’’.
Subsec. (c)(2)(F) to (H). Pub. L. 111–383, § 2801(a), re-
designated subpars. (G) and (H) as (F) and (G), respec-
tively, and struck out former subpar. (F) which read as
follows: ‘‘The estimated final cost of the project and, if
the estimated final cost of the project exceeds t
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