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[CITE: 10USC4655]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                            Subtitle B--Army
 
                PART IV--SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT
 
  CHAPTER 441--ISSUE OF SERVICEABLE MATERIAL OTHER THAN TO ARMED FORCES
 
Sec. 4655. Arms and ammunition: agencies and departments of the 
        United States
        
    (a) Whenever required for the protection of public money and 
property, the Secretary of the Army may lend arms and their 
accouterments, and issue ammunition, to a department or independent 
agency of the United States, upon request of its head. Property lent or 
issued under this subsection may be delivered to an officer of the 
department or agency designated by the head thereof, and that officer 
shall account for the property to the Secretary of the Army. Property 
lent or issued under this subsection and not properly expended shall be 
returned when it is no longer needed.
    (b) The department or agency to which property is lent or issued 
under subsection (a) shall transfer funds to the credit of the 
Department of the Army to cover the costs of--
        (1) ammunition issued;
        (2) replacing arms and accouterments that have been lost or 
    destroyed, or cannot be repaired;
        (3) repairing arms and accouterments returned to the Department 
    of the Army; and
        (4) making and receiving shipments by the Department of the 
    Army.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 261.)

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   Source (Statutes at Large)
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4655(a)...............................  50:61 (less proviso).                Ma
r. 3, 1879, ch. 183 (2d par.
4655(b)...............................  50:61 (proviso).                      u
nder ``Miscellaneous''); restated
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pr. 14, 1937, ch. 79, 50 Stat.
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3.
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    In subsection (a), the word ``lend'' is substituted for the word 
``issue'', with respect to arms and accouterments, since the property 
must be returned when the necessity for its use has expired. The words 
``and not properly expended'' are inserted for clarity. The words 
``United States'' are substituted for the word ``Government''. The word 
``their'' is substituted for the words ``suitable * * * for use 
therewith''. The words ``it is no longer needed'' are substituted for 
the words ``the necessity for their use has expired''.
    In subsection (b), the words ``hereafter'', ``borrowed'', and 
``under the authority of this section'' are omitted as surplusage.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 7 section 2238.
