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[CITE: 10USC2824]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                PART IV--SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT
 
     CHAPTER 169--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AND MILITARY FAMILY HOUSING
 
                 SUBCHAPTER II--MILITARY FAMILY HOUSING
 
Sec. 2824. Authorization for acquisition of existing family 
        housing in lieu of construction
        
    (a) In lieu of constructing any family housing units authorized by 
law to be constructed, the Secretary concerned may acquire sole interest 
in existing family housing units that are privately owned or that are 
held by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, except that in 
foreign countries the Secretary concerned may acquire less than sole 
interest in existing family housing units.
    (b) When authority provided by law to construct military family 
housing units is used to acquire existing family housing units under 
subsection (a), the authority includes authority to acquire interests in 
land.
    (c) The net floor area of a family housing unit acquired under the 
authority of this section may not exceed the applicable limitation 
specified in section 2826 of this title. The Secretary concerned may 
waive the limitation set forth in the preceding sentence to family 
housing units acquired under this section during the five-year period 
beginning on February 10, 1996.
    (d) Family housing units may not be acquired under this section 
through the exercise of eminent domain authority.

(Added Pub. L. 97-214, Sec. 2(a), July 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 159; amended 
Pub. L. 104-106, div. B, title XXVIII, Sec. 2813, Feb. 10, 1996, 110 
Stat. 553; Pub. L. 104-201, div. A, title X, Sec. 1074(a)(17), Sept. 23, 
1996, 110 Stat. 2659.)


                               Amendments

    1996--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 104-201 substituted ``February 10, 1996'' 
for ``the date of the enactment of the National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 1996''.
    Pub. L. 104-106 inserted at end ``The Secretary concerned may waive 
the limitation set forth in the preceding sentence to family housing 
units acquired under this section during the five-year period beginning 
on the date of the enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act 
for Fiscal Year 1996.''


                             Effective Date

    For effective date and applicability of section, see section 12(a) 
of Pub. L. 97-214, set out as a note under section 2801 of this title.
