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10 U.S.C. § 8765 — Obsolete material and articles of historical interest: loan or gift
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**(a) Authority To Make Loans and Gifts.—** The Secretary of the Navy may lend or give, without expense to the United States, items described in subsection (b) that are not needed by the Department of the Navy to any of the following:
(1) A State, Commonwealth, or possession of the United States, or political subdivision or municipal corporation thereof.
(2) The District of Columbia.
(3) A library.
(4) A historical society.
(5) An educational institution whose graduates or students fought in a foreign war.
(6) A servicemen’s monument association.
(7) A State museum.
(8) A museum or memorial operated and maintained for educational purposes only, whose charter denies it the right to operate for profit.
(9) A post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States.
(10) A post of the American Legion.
(11) Any other recognized war veterans’ association.
(12) A post of the Sons of Veterans Reserve.
**(b) Items Eligible for Disposal.—** This section applies to the following types of property held by the Department of the Navy:
(1) Captured, condemned, or obsolete ordnance material.
(2) Captured, condemned, or obsolete combat or shipboard material.
**(c) Regulations.—** A loan or gift made under this section shall be subject to regulations prescribed by the Secretary and to regulations under [section 121 of title 40](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title40-section121&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(d) Maintenance of the Records of the Government.—** Records of the Government as defined in [section 3301 of title 44](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title44-section3301&num=0&edition=prelim) may not be disposed of under this section.
**(e) Alternative Authorities To Make Gifts or Loans.—** If any disposition i
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**(a) Authority To Make Loans and Gifts.—** The Secretary of the Navy may lend or give, without expense to the United States, items described in subsection (b) that are not needed by the Department of the Navy to any of the following:
(1) A State, Commonwealth, or possession of the United States, or political subdivision or municipal corporation thereof.
(2) The District of Columbia.
(3) A library.
(4) A historical society.
(5) An educational institution whose graduates or students fought in a foreign war.
(6) A servicemen’s monument association.
(7) A State museum.
(8) A museum or memorial operated and maintained for educational purposes only, whose charter denies it the right to operate for profit.
(9) A post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States.
(10) A post of the American Legion.
(11) Any other recognized war veterans’ association.
(12) A post of the Sons of Veterans Reserve.
**(b) Items Eligible for Disposal.—** This section applies to the following types of property held by the Department of the Navy:
(1) Captured, condemned, or obsolete ordnance material.
(2) Captured, condemned, or obsolete combat or shipboard material.
**(c) Regulations.—** A loan or gift made under this section shall be subject to regulations prescribed by the Secretary and to regulations under [section 121 of title 40](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title40-section121&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(d) Maintenance of the Records of the Government.—** Records of the Government as defined in [section 3301 of title 44](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title44-section3301&num=0&edition=prelim) may not be disposed of under this section.
**(e) Alternative Authorities To Make Gifts or Loans.—** If any disposition is authorized by this section and [section 2572 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2572&num=0&edition=prelim), the Secretary may make the gift or loan under either section.
**(f) Authority To Transfer a Portion of a Vessel.—** The Secretary may lend, give, or otherwise transfer any portion of the hull or superstructure of a vessel stricken from the Naval Vessel Register and designated for scrapping to a qualified organization specified in subsection (a). The terms and conditions of an agreement for the transfer of a portion of a vessel under this section shall include a requirement that the transferee will maintain the material conveyed in a condition that will not diminish the historical value of the material or bring discredit upon the Navy.
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**(a) Records Defined.—**
(1) **In general.—** — As used in this chapter, the term “records”—
(A) includes all recorded information, regardless of form or characteristics, made or received by a Federal agency under Federal law or in connection with the transaction of public business and preserved or appropriate for preservation by that agency or its legitimate successor as evidence of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, operations, or other activities of the United States Government or because of the informational value of data in them; and
(B) does not include—
(i) library and museum material made or acquired and preserved solely for reference or exhibition purposes; or
(ii) duplicate copies of records preserved only for convenience.
(2) **Recorded information defined.—** — For purposes of paragraph (1), the term “recorded information” includes all traditional forms of records, regardless of physical form or characteristics, including information created, manipulated, communicated, or stored in digital or electronic form.
**(b) Determination of Definition.—** The Archivist’s determination whether recorded information, regardless of whether it exists in physical, digital, or electronic form, is a record as defined in subsection (a) shall be binding on all Federal agencies.
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**(a) Policies Prescribed by the President.—** The President may prescribe policies and directives that the President considers necessary to carry out this subtitle. The policies must be consistent with this subtitle.
**(b) Accounting Principles and Standards.—**
(1) **Prescription.—** — The Comptroller General, after considering the needs and requirements of executive agencies, shall prescribe principles and standards of accounting for property.
(2) **Property accounting systems.—** — The Comptroller General shall cooperate with the Administrator of General Services and with executive agencies in the development of property accounting systems and approve the systems when they are adequate and in conformity with prescribed principles and standards.
(3) **Compliance review.—** — From time to time the Comptroller General shall examine the property accounting systems established by executive agencies to determine the extent of compliance with prescribed principles and standards and approved systems. The Comptroller General shall report to Congress any failure to comply with the principles and standards or to adequately account for property.
**(c) Regulations by Administrator.—**
(1) **General authority.—** — The Administrator may prescribe regulations to carry out this subtitle.
(2) **Required regulations and orders.—** — The Administrator shall prescribe regulations that the Administrator considers necessary to carry out the Administrator’s functions under this subtitle and the head of each executive agency shall issue orders and directives that the agency head considers necessary to carry out the regulations.
**(d) Delegation of Authority by Administrator.—**
(1) **In general.—** — Except as provided in paragraph (2), the Administrator may delegate authority con
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**(a) Defense Acquisition System.—** In this part, the term “defense acquisition system” means—
(1) the workforce engaged in carrying out the acquisition of property and services for the Department of Defense;
(2) the management structure responsible for directing and overseeing the acquisition of property and services for the Department of Defense; and
(3) the statutory, regulatory, and policy framework that guides the acquisition of property and services for the Department of Defense.
**(b) Element of the Defense Acquisition System.—** In this part, the term “element of the defense acquisition system” means an organization that—
(1) employs members of the acquisition workforce;
(2) carries out acquisition functions; and
(3) focuses primarily on acquisition.
**(c) Acquisition.—** In this part, the term “acquisition” has the meaning provided in [section 131 of title 41](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title41-section131&num=0&edition=prelim).
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**(a)** The Secretary concerned may lend or give items described in subsection (c) that are not needed by the military department concerned (or by the Coast Guard, in the case of the Secretary of Homeland Security), to any of the following:
(1) A municipal corporation, county, or other political subdivision of a State.
(2) A servicemen’s monument association.
(3) A museum, historical society, or historical institution of a State or a foreign nation or a nonprofit military aviation heritage foundation or association incorporated in a State.
(4) An incorporated museum or memorial that is operated and maintained for educational purposes only and the charter of which denies it the right to operate for profit.
(5) A post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States or of the American Legion or a unit of any other recognized war veterans’ association.
(6) A local or national unit of any war veterans’ association of a foreign nation which is recognized by the national government of that nation (or by the government of one of the principal political subdivisions of that nation).
(7) A post of the Sons of Veterans Reserve.
**(b)**
(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the Secretary concerned may exchange items described in subsection (c) that are not needed by the armed forces for any of the following items or services if such items or services directly benefit the historical collection of the armed forces:
(A) Similar items held by any individual, organization, institution, agency, or nation.
(B) Conservation supplies, equipment, facilities, or systems.
(C) Search, salvage, or transportation services.
(D) Restoration, conservation, or preservation services.
(E) Educational programs.
(2) The Secretary concerned may not make an exchange under paragraph (1
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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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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](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section8765&num=0&edition=prelim) any article, material, or equipment, including silver service, given by it.
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TITLE 10—ARMED FORCES
§ 8765
(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 465, § 7544; re-
numbered § 8764, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title
VIII, § 807(d)(8), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1836.)
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
Revised
section
Source (U.S. Code)
Source (Statutes at Large)
7544 .........
34 U.S.C. 546i.
Aug. 7, 1946, ch. 804, § 4,
60 Stat. 898.
The words ‘‘such * * * as he may in his discretion de-
termine’’ are omitted as surplusage.
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 7544 of this
title as this section.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 2018 AMENDMENT
Amendment 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.
§ 8765. Obsolete material and articles of histor-
ical interest: loan or gift
(a) AUTHORITY TO MAKE LOANS AND GIFTS.—
The Secretary of the Navy may lend or give,
without expense to the United States, items de-
scribed in subsection (b) that are not needed by
the Department of the Navy to any of the fol-
lowing:
(1) A State, Commonwealth, or possession of
the United States, or political subdivision or
municipal corporation thereof.
(2) The District of Columbia.
(3) A library.
(4) A historical society.
(5) An educational institution whose grad-
uates or students fought in a foreign war.
(6) A servicemen’s monument association.
(7) A State museum.
(8) A museum or memorial operated and
maintained for educational purposes only,
whose charter denies it the right to operate
for profit.
(9) A post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of
the United States.
(10) A post of the American Legion.
(11)
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