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[CITE: 10USC7303]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle C--Navy and Marine Corps
 
                     PART IV--GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
 
                       CHAPTER 633--NAVAL VESSELS
 
Sec. 7303. Model Basin; investigation of hull designs

    (a) An office or agency in the Department of the Navy designated by 
the Secretary of the Navy shall conduct at the David W. Taylor Model 
Basin, Carderock, Maryland, investigations to determine the most 
suitable shapes and forms for United States vessels and aircraft and 
investigations of other problems of their design.
    (b) The Secretary of the Navy may authorize experiments to be made 
at the Model Basin for private persons. The costs of experiments made 
for private persons shall be paid by those persons under regulations 
prescribed by the Secretary. The results of private experiments are 
confidential and may not be divulged without the consent of the persons 
for whom they are made. However, the data obtained from such experiments 
may be used by the Secretary for governmental purposes, subject to the 
patent laws of the United States.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 451; Pub. L. 89-718, Sec. 41, Nov. 
2, 1966, 80 Stat. 1120.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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7303..................................  5 U.S.C. 430a.                       Ma
y 6, 1936, ch. 333, 49 Stat.
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263; June 20, 1940, ch. 400, Sec.
                                                                               
1(a), (b), 54 Stat. 492.
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    In subsection (a) the authority to purchase a site and construct the 
model basin is omitted as executed. The words ``David W. Taylor Model 
Basin, Carderock, Maryland'' are inserted to designate the model basin 
established under this authority. The words ``investigations to 
determine'' are substituted for the words ``work of investigating and 
determining.'' The phrase ``vessels, including aircraft'' is changed to 
read ``vessels and aircraft'', and the words ``their design'' are 
substituted for ``ship design''.


                               Amendments

    1966--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 89-718 substituted ``An officer or agency 
of the Department of the Navy designated by the Secretary of the Navy'' 
for ``The Bureau of Ships''.
