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[CITE: 10USC7545]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle C--Navy and Marine Corps
 
                     PART IV--GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
 
          CHAPTER 647--DISPOSAL OF OBSOLETE OR SURPLUS MATERIAL
 
Sec. 7545. Obsolete material and articles of historical 
        interest: loan or gift
        
    (a) Subject to regulations under section 205 of the Federal Property 
and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 486), the Secretary 
of the Navy, under regulations prescribed by him, may lend or give, 
without expense to the United States, captured, condemned, or obsolete 
ordnance material, books, manuscripts, works of art, drawings, plans, 
and models, other condemned or obsolete material, trophies, and flags, 
and other material of historic interest not needed by the Department of 
the Navy, to--
        (1) a State, Territory, Commonwealth, or possession of the 
    United States, or political subdivision or municipal corporation 
    thereof;
        (2) the District of Columbia;
        (3) a library;
        (4) a historical society;
        (5) an educational institution whose graduates or students 
    fought in World War I or World War II;
        (6) a soldiers' monument association;
        (7) a State museum;
        (8) a museum operated and maintained for educational purposes 
    only, whose charter denies it the right to operate for profit;
        (9) a post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States;
        (10) a post of the American Legion;
        (11) any other recognized war veterans' association; or
        (12) a post of the Sons of Veterans Reserve.

    (b) Records of the Government as defined in section 3301 of title 44 
may not be disposed of under this section.
    (c) If any disposition is authorized by this section and section 
2572 of this title, the Secretary may make the gift or loan under either 
section.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 466; Pub. L. 96-513, title V, 
Sec. 513(39), (40), Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2934, 2935; Pub. L. 104-106, 
div. A, title X, Sec. 1061(i), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 443.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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7545..................................  34 U.S.C. 546g.                      Au
g. 7, 1946, ch. 804, Sec.  2, 60
                                                                              S
tat. 897; Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 654,
                                                                              S
ec.  2(23), 65 Stat. 707.
                                        34 U.S.C. 546h (last sentence as     Au
g. 7, 1946, ch. 804, Sec.  3
                                         applicable to 34 U.S.C. 546g).       (
last sentence as applicable to
                                                                              S
ec.  2), 60 Stat. 897.
                                        34 U.S.C. 546k (1st sentence as      Au
g. 7, 1946, ch. 804, Sec.  6 (1st
                                         applicable to 34 U.S.C. 546g, and    s
entence as applicable to Sec.  2,
                                         3d sentence).                        a
nd 3d sentence), 60 Stat. 898.
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    In subsection (a) the words, ``ordnance material'' are substituted 
for the words ``ordnance, guns, projectiles''. Posts of the Grand Army 
of the Republic are omitted from the list of authorized donees because 
there are no surviving members of that organization. The word 
``Commonwealth'' is inserted to reflect the present status of Puerto 
Rico. Specific reference to the Canal Zone is omitted as unnecessary, 
since the Zone is a ``possession of the United States'' as defined in 
section 101 of this title and is therefore covered by clause (1).
    Subsection (d) is added to note the existence of a later act, 
codified in Sec. 2572 of this title, which provides similar disposal 
authority, and to give effect to Sec. 2 of the Act of February 27, 1948, 
ch. 76, 62 Stat. 37, which is not now contained in the U.S. Code, and 
which saves this section despite the apparent implied repeal.


                               Amendments

    1996--Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub. L. 104-106 redesignated subsec. (d) as 
(c) and struck out former subsec. (c) which read as follows: ``No loan 
or gift under this section may be made unless--
        ``(1) notice of the proposal to make the loan or gift is sent to 
    Congress;
        ``(2) 30 calendar days of continuous session of Congress have 
    expired after the notice was sent to Congress; and
        ``(3) during that 30-day period Congress does not pass a 
    concurrent resolution stating in substance that it does not favor 
    the proposed loan or gift.''
    1980--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 96-513, Sec. 513(39), substituted 
``section 205 of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 
1949 (40 U.S.C. 486),'' for ``section 486 of title 40''.
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 96-513, Sec. 513(40), substituted ``section 
3301'' for ``section 366''.


                    Effective Date of 1980 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 96-513 effective Dec. 12, 1980, see section 
701(b)(3) of Pub. L. 96-513, set out as a note under section 101 of this 
title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 7546 of this title.
