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[CITE: 10USC2739]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                PART IV--SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT
 
                      CHAPTER 163--MILITARY CLAIMS
 
Sec. 2739. Amounts recovered from third parties for loss or 
        damage to personal property shipped or stored at Government 
        expense: crediting to appropriations
        
    (a) Crediting of Collections.--Any qualifying military department 
third-party collection shall be credited to the appropriate current 
appropriation. Amounts so credited shall be merged with the funds in 
that appropriation and shall be available for the same period and 
purposes as the funds with which merged.
    (b) Appropriate Current Appropriation.--For purposes of subsection 
(a), the appropriate current appropriation with respect to a qualifying 
military department third-party collection is the appropriation 
currently available, as of the date of the collection, for the payment 
of claims by that military department for loss or damage of personal 
property shipped or stored at Government expense.
    (c) Qualifying Military Department Third-Party Collections.--For 
purposes of subsection (a), a qualifying military department third-party 
collection is any amount that a military department collects under 
sections 3711, 3716, 3717, and 3721 of title 31 from a third party for a 
loss or damage to personal property that occurred during shipment or 
storage of the property at Government expense and for which the 
Secretary of the military department paid the owner in settlement of a 
claim.

(Added Pub. L. 105-261, div. A, title X, Sec. 1010(a)(1), Oct. 17, 1998, 
112 Stat. 2117.)


                             Effective Date

    Pub. L. 105-261, div. A, title X, Sec. 1010(b), Oct. 17, 1998, 112 
Stat. 2117, provided that: ``Section 2739 of title 10, United States 
Code, as added by subsection (a), applies with respect to amounts 
collected by a military department on or after the date of the enactment 
of this Act [Oct. 17, 1998].''
