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[CITE: 10USC7228]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle C--Navy and Marine Corps
 
                     PART IV--GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
 
   CHAPTER 631--SECRETARY OF THE NAVY: MISCELLANEOUS POWERS AND DUTIES
 
Sec. 7228. Merchant vessels: supplies

    (a) The Secretary of the Navy, under such regulations as he 
prescribes, may sell to a merchant ship such fuel and other supplies as 
may be required to meet its necessities if the ship is unable--
        (1) to procure the supplies from other sources at its present 
    location; and
        (2) to proceed to the nearest port where they may be obtained 
    without endangering the safety of the ship, the health and comfort 
    of its personnel, or the safe condition of the property carried on 
    it.

    (b) Sales under this section shall be at such prices as the 
Secretary considers reasonable. Payment shall be made on a cash basis or 
on such other basis as will reasonably assure prompt payment. Amounts 
received from such a sale shall, unless otherwise directed by another 
provision of law, be credited to the current appropriation concerned and 
are available for the same purposes as that appropriation.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 448.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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7228..................................  34 U.S.C. 555f.                      Ju
ne 4, 1954, ch. 264, Sec.  3, 68
                                                                              S
tat. 176.
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