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[CITE: 10USC2421]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                PART IV--SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT
 
              CHAPTER 143--PRODUCTION BY MILITARY AGENCIES
 
Sec. 2421. Plantations and farms: operation, maintenance, and 
        improvement
        
    (a) Appropriations for the subsistence of members of the Army, Navy, 
Air Force, or Marine Corps are available for expenditures necessary in 
the operation, maintenance, and improvement of any plantation or farm, 
outside the United States and under the jurisdiction of the Army, Navy, 
Air Force, or Marine Corps, as the case may be, for furnishing fresh 
fruits and vegetables to the armed forces. However, no land may be 
acquired under this subsection.
    (b) Fruits and vegetables produced under subsection (a) that are 
over the amount furnished or sold to the armed forces or to civilians 
serving with the armed forces may be sold only outside the United 
States.
    (c) Of the persons employed by the United States under subsection 
(a), only nationals of the United States are entitled to the benefits 
provided by laws relating to the employment, work, compensation, or 
other benefits of civilian employees of the United States.
    (d) A plantation or farm covered by subsection (a) shall be 
operated, maintained, and improved by a private contractor or lessee, so 
far as practicable. Before using members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, 
or Marine Corps, as the case may be, the Secretary concerned must make a 
reasonable effort to make a contract or lease with a person in civil 
life for his services for that operation, maintenance, or improvement, 
on terms advantageous to the United States. A determination by the 
Secretary as to the reasonableness of effort to make a contract or 
lease, and as to the advantageous nature of its terms, is final.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 138.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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2421(a)...............................  10:1213 (less 1st and 2d provisos).  Ju
ne 28, 1944, ch. 306; restated
                                        34:555a (less 1st and 2d provisos).   J
uly 1, 1947, ch. 188, 61 Stat.
                                        10:1213 (2d proviso).                 2
34; Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 654, Sec.
                                        34:555a (2d proviso).                 3
(2), 65 Stat. 708.
2421(b)...............................
2421(c)...............................  10:1213 (1st proviso).
                                        34:555a (1st proviso).
2421(d)...............................  10:1214.
                                        34:555b.
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    In subsection (a), the word ``management'', in 10:1213 and 34:555a, 
is omitted as covered by the word ``operation''. The word ``members'' is 
substituted for the word ``personnel''. The word ``may'' is substituted 
for the word ``shall''. The words ``any and all'' and ``the purpose of'' 
are omitted as surplusage.
    In subsections (a) and (b), the word ``continental'' is omitted, 
since section 101(1) of this title defines the United States to include 
the States and the District of Columbia.
    In subsection (b), the words ``of the United States'' are omitted as 
surplusage. The words ``Fruits and vegetables produced under subsection 
(a)'' are substituted for the words ``That surplus production''.
    In subsection (c), the words ``nationals of the United States'' are 
substituted for the words ``American nationals''. The words ``civil-
service laws and other * * * of the United States'' and ``rights * * * 
or obligations'' are omitted as surplusage.
    In subsection (d), the words ``after the termination of the present 
war'' are omitted as executed. The word ``by'' is substituted for the 
words ``through the instrumentality of''. The words ``partnership, 
association'' are omitted as covered by the definition of ``person'' in 
section 1 of title 1. The words ``United States'' are substituted for 
the word ``Government''. The words ``management'', ``for that purpose'', 
and ``or agreement'' are omitted as surplusage.
