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[CITE: 10USC2686]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                PART IV--SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT
 
CHAPTER 159--REAL PROPERTY; RELATED PERSONAL PROPERTY; AND LEASE OF NON-
                             EXCESS PROPERTY
 
Sec. 2686. Utilities and services: sale; expansion and extension 
        of systems and facilities
        
    (a) Under such regulations and for such periods and at such prices 
as he may prescribe, the Secretary concerned or his designee may sell or 
contract to sell to purchasers within or in the immediate vicinity of an 
activity of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard, as 
the case may be, any of the following utilities and related services, if 
it is determined that they are not available from another local source 
and that the sale is in the interest of national defense or in the 
public interest:
        (1) Electric power.
        (2) Steam.
        (3) Compressed air.
        (4) Water.
        (5) Sewage and garbage disposal.
        (6) Natural, manufactured, or mixed gas.
        (7) Ice.
        (8) Mechanical refrigeration.
        (9) Telephone service.

    (b) Proceeds of sales under subsection (a) shall be credited to the 
appropriation currently available for the supply of that utility or 
service.
    (c) To meet local needs the Secretary concerned may make minor 
expansions and extensions of any distributing system or facility within 
an activity through which a utility or service is furnished under 
subsection (a).

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 141, Sec. 2481; Pub. L. 86-156, Aug. 
14, 1959, 73 Stat. 338; renumbered Sec. 2686, Pub. L. 105-85, div. A, 
title III, Sec. 371(b)(1), Nov. 18, 1997, 111 Stat. 1705.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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2481(a)...............................  5:626s.                              Ju
ly 30, 1947, ch. 394, 61 Stat.
                                        5:626s-1 (less words between          6
75; Aug. 8, 1949, ch. 403, Sec.
                                         semicolon and colon).                5
, 63 Stat. 576.
                                        10:1269.
                                        10:1269a (less words between
                                         semicolon and colon).
                                        34:553a.
                                        34:553b (less words between
                                         semicolon and colon).
2481(b)...............................  5:626s-1 (words between semicolon
                                         and colon).
                                        10:1269a (words between semicolon
                                         and colon).
                                        34:553b (words between semicolon
                                         and colon).
2481(c)...............................  5:626s-2.
                                        10:1269b.
                                        34:553c.
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    In subsection (a), the words ``within his establishment'', ``of 
time'', and the opening clauses of 5:626s-1, 10:1269a, and 34:553b, are 
omitted as surplusage. The words ``not available from another local 
source'' are substituted for the words ``not otherwise available from 
local private or public sources''.
    In subsection (b), the words ``of sales under subsection (a)'' are 
substituted for the words ``received for any such utilities and related 
services sold pursuant to the authority of said sections''. The words 
``or appropriations'' are omitted as surplusage.


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 2686, added Pub. L. 95-82, title V, Sec. 504(a)(1), 
Aug. 1, 1977, 91 Stat. 371; amended Pub. L. 95-356, title V, 
Sec. 503(a), Sept. 8, 1978, 92 Stat. 579; Pub. L. 96-125, title V, 
Sec. 502(a), Nov. 26, 1979, 93 Stat. 940; Pub. L. 96-418, title V, 
Sec. 504(a), Oct. 10, 1980, 94 Stat. 1765, related to military family 
housing leases, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 97-214, Secs. 7(1), 12(a), 
July 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 173, 176, effective Oct. 1, 1982, and applicable 
to military construction projects, and to construction and acquisition 
of military family housing authorized before, on, or after such date. 
See section 2828(a), (b) of this title.


                               Amendments

    1997--Pub. L. 105-85 renumbered section 2481 of this title as this 
section.
    1959--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 86-156, Sec. 1(1), substituted 
``concerned'' for ``of a military department'' and inserted ``or Coast 
Guard,'' after ``Marine Corps,''.
    Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 86-156, Sec. 1(2), struck out ``of the military 
department'' after ``Secretary''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 2814 of this title.
