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[CITE: 10USC7229]

 
                         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. 7229. Purchase of fuel

    In buying fuel, the Secretary of the Navy may, in any manner he 
considers proper, buy the kind of fuel that is best adapted to the 
purpose for which it is to be used.

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

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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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7229..................................  34 U.S.C. 580.                       R.
S. 3728.
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    The first sentence is omitted as covered by Sec. 2 of the Act of 
Mar. 3, 1933, ch. 212 (41 U.S.C. 10a). The words ``for the Navy, or for 
naval stations and yards'' are omitted, since R.S. 3728 has been 
interpreted as authorizing the Armed Services Petroleum Purchasing 
Agency to negotiate contracts for the purchase of fuel, not only when 
acting as a procuring activity for the Navy, but also when filling the 
consolidated fuel requirements of the armed forces. The word ``may'' is 
substituted for the words ``shall have the power to'' for uniformity. 
The words ``discriminate and'' are omitted as surplusage.
