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[CITE: 10USC2644]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                PART IV--SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT
 
                       CHAPTER 157--TRANSPORTATION
 
Sec. 2644. Control of transportation systems in time of war

    In time of war, the President, through the Secretary of Defense, may 
take possession and assume control of all or part of any system of 
transportation to transport troops, war material, and equipment, or for 
other purposes related to the emergency. So far as necessary, he may use 
the system to the exclusion of other traffic.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 266, Sec. 4742; renumbered Sec. 2644 
and amended Pub. L. 104-201, div. A, title IX, Sec. 906(a), (b), Sept. 
23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2620.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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4742..................................  10:1361.                             Au
g. 29, 1916, ch. 418 (last par.
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nder ``Ordnance Department''), 39
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tat. 645.
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    The words ``as may be needful or desirable'' are omitted as 
surplusage.


                               Amendments

    1996--Pub. L. 104-201 renumbered section 4742 of this title as this 
section and substituted ``Secretary of Defense'' for ``Secretary of the 
Army''.
