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37 U.S.C. § 416 — Uniform allowance: officers; additional allowances
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**(a)** In addition to the allowance provided by [section 415 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title37-section415&num=0&edition=prelim), a reserve officer of an armed force, an officer of the Army or the Air Force without specification of component, an officer of the Space Force not on sustained duty, or a regular officer of an armed force appointed under section 2106 or 2107 of title 10 is entitled to not more than $200 as reimbursement for additional uniforms and equipment required on that duty, for each time that the officer enters on active duty for a period of more than 90 days.
**(b)** Subsection (a) does not apply to a tour of active duty if—
(1) the officer, during that tour or within a period of two years before entering on that tour, received, under any law, an initial uniform reimbursement or allowance of more than $400; or
(2) the officer enters on that tour within two years after completing a period of active duty of more than 90 days’ duration.
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**(a)** In addition to the allowance provided by [section 415 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title37-section415&num=0&edition=prelim), a reserve officer of an armed force, an officer of the Army or the Air Force without specification of component, an officer of the Space Force not on sustained duty, or a regular officer of an armed force appointed under section 2106 or 2107 of title 10 is entitled to not more than $200 as reimbursement for additional uniforms and equipment required on that duty, for each time that the officer enters on active duty for a period of more than 90 days.
**(b)** Subsection (a) does not apply to a tour of active duty if—
(1) the officer, during that tour or within a period of two years before entering on that tour, received, under any law, an initial uniform reimbursement or allowance of more than $400; or
(2) the officer enters on that tour within two years after completing a period of active duty of more than 90 days’ duration.
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Members of the Space Force shall be managed through a single military personnel management system, without component.
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**(a)** Subject to subsection (b), an officer of an armed force is entitled to an initial allowance of not more than $400 as reimbursement for the purchase of required uniforms and equipment—
(1) upon first reporting for active duty (other than for training) for a period of more than 90 days;
(2) upon completing at least 14 days of active duty as a member of a reserve component;
(3) upon completing 14 periods, each of which was of at least two hours’ duration, of inactive-duty training as a member of the Ready Reserve; or
(4) upon reporting for the first period of active duty required by [section 2121(c) of title 10](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2121/c&num=0&edition=prelim) as a member of the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship program.
**(b)** An officer who has received an initial uniform reimbursement or allowance under any other law is not entitled to an initial allowance under subsection (a).
**(c)** An allowance of $250 for uniforms and equipment may be paid to each commissioned officer of the Public Health Service who is—
(1) on active duty or on inactive duty training status; and
(2) required by directive of the Surgeon General to wear a uniform.
An officer is not entitled to more than one allowance under this subsection.
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**(a) In General.—** The following definitions apply in this title:
(1) The term “United States”, in a geographic sense, means the States and the District of Columbia.
(2) Repealed. Pub. L. 109–163, div. A, title X, § 1057(a)(1), Jan. 6, 2006, 119 Stat. 3440.]
(3) The term “possessions” includes the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Guano Islands, so long as they remain possessions, but does not include any Commonwealth.
(4) The term “armed forces” means the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, and Coast Guard.
(5) The term “uniformed services” means—
(A) the armed forces;
(B) the commissioned corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; and
(C) the commissioned corps of the Public Health Service.
(6) The term “department”, when used with respect to a military department, means the executive part of the department and all field headquarters, forces, reserve components, installations, activities, and functions under the control or supervision of the Secretary of the department. When used with respect to the Department of Defense, such term means the executive part of the department, including the executive parts of the military departments, and all field headquarters, forces, reserve components, installations, activities, and functions under the control or supervision of the Secretary of Defense, including those of the military departments.
(7) The term “executive part of the department” means the executive part of the Department of Defense, Department of the Army, Department of the Navy, or Department of the Air Force, as the case may be, at the seat of government.
(8) The term “military departments” means the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, and the Department of the Air Force.
(9) The term
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TITLE 37—PAY AND ALLOWANCES OF THE UNIFORMED
SERVICES
§ 416
1966—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 89–718 struck out ‘‘, United
States Code,’’ after ‘‘title 10’’.
Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 89–444 substituted ‘‘section 214 of
title 14’’ for ‘‘section 435 of title 14’’.
1964—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 88–647 included a regular of-
ficer of an armed force appointed under section 2106 or
2107 of title 10.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 2000 AMENDMENT
Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [[div. A], title VI, § 610(c)], Oct. 30,
2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A–150, provided that: ‘‘The
amendments made by this section [amending this sec-
tion and section 416 of this title] shall take effect on
October 1, 2000.’’
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1981 AMENDMENT
Pub. L. 97–22, § 10(c), July 10, 1981, 95 Stat. 137, pro-
vided that the amendment made by that section is ef-
fective Sept. 15, 1981.
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1980 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 96–513 effective Sept. 15, 1981,
but the authority to prescribe regulations under the
amendment by section 412 of Pub. L. 96–513 effective on
Dec. 12, 1980, see section 701 of Pub. L. 96–513, set out as
a note under section 101 of Title 10, Armed Forces.
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1979 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 96–76 effective Oct. 1, 1979, see
section 314 of Pub. L. 96–76, set out as a note under sec-
tion 206 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare.
Executive Documents
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS
Functions of Public Health Service, Surgeon General
of Public Health Service, and all other officers and em-
ployees of Public Health Service, and all functions of
all agencies of or in Public Health Service transferred
to Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare by
Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1966, eff. June 25, 1966, 31 F.R. 8855,
80 Stat. 1610,
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