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[CITE: 10USC7579]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle C--Navy and Marine Corps
 
                     PART IV--GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
 
             CHAPTER 649--QUARTERS, UTILITIES, AND SERVICES
 
Sec. 7579. Officers' messes and quarters: limitations on 
        employment of enlisted members
        
    (a) Under such regulations as the Secretary of the Navy prescribes, 
enlisted members of the naval service and enlisted members of the Coast 
Guard when it is operating as a service in the Navy may be assigned to 
duty in a service capacity in officers' messes and public quarters where 
the Secretary finds that this use of the members is desirable for 
military reasons.
    (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, retired enlisted 
members of the naval service and members of the Fleet Reserve and the 
Fleet Marine Corps Reserve may, when not on active duty, be voluntarily 
employed in any service capacity in officers' messes and public quarters 
without additional expense to the United States.
    (c) The Secretary, to the extent he considers proper, may delegate 
the authority conferred by this section, except the authority to 
prescribe regulations, to any person in the Department of the Navy, with 
or without the authority to make successive redelegations.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 470.)

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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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7579..................................  34 U.S.C. 915b(b).                   Au
g. 2, 1946, ch. 756, Sec.  16(b),
                                                                              6
0 Stat. 855.
                                        5 U.S.C. 412a.                       Au
g. 2, 1946, ch. 756, Sec.  39, 60
                                                                              S
tat. 858.
                                        5 U.S.C. 421g(b).                    Au
g. 2, 1946, ch. 756, Sec.  40(b),
                                                                              6
0 Stat. 858.
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    In subsection (a) the words ``enlisted members of the naval service 
and enlisted members of the Coast Guard when it is operating as a 
service in the Navy'' are substituted for the words ``enlisted naval 
personnel'' to execute the definition of ``naval personnel'' made 
applicable to this section by 5 U.S.C. 421g. The definition in that 
section also covers personnel of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, but 
since that service has no enlisted members reference to it is 
unnecessary. In executing this definition the words ``while on active 
duty'' are omitted as unnecessary, since members not on active duty 
would not be subject to assignment by the Secretary of the Navy.
    In subsection (b) the word ``transferred'' before the words ``member 
of the Fleet Reserve'' is omitted as unnecessary, since the categories 
of such members other than ``transferred'' have not been 
administratively used, and authority for them is omitted in this title. 
The words ``and the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve'' are added, as the words 
``Fleet Reserve'' are used in a generic sense to cover such members. The 
words ``when not on active duty'' are added. When the personnel 
concerned are on active duty, they are treated in the same manner as 
others on active duty.
