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[CITE: 10USC7308]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle C--Navy and Marine Corps
 
                     PART IV--GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
 
                       CHAPTER 633--NAVAL VESSELS
 
Sec. 7308. Chief of Naval Operations: certification required for 
        disposal of combatant vessels
        
    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no combatant vessel of 
the Navy may be sold, transferred, or otherwise disposed of unless the 
Chief of Naval Operations certifies that it is not essential to the 
defense of the United States.

(Added Pub. L. 103-160, div. A, title VIII, Sec. 824(b), Nov. 30, 1993, 
107 Stat. 1710.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 7308, acts Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 453; 
Dec. 12, 1980, Pub. L. 96-513, title V, Sec. 513(29), 94 Stat. 2933; 
Sept. 29, 1988, Pub. L. 100-456, div. A, title XII, Sec. 1234(a)(6), 102 
Stat. 2059; Nov. 5, 1990, Pub. L. 101-510, div. A, title XIV, Sec. 1427, 
104 Stat. 1685, related to transfer or gift of obsolete, condemned, and 
captured vessels, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 103-160, Sec. 824(b).

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 42 section 6939d.
