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[CITE: 10USC7605]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle C--Navy and Marine Corps
 
                     PART IV--GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
 
            CHAPTER 651--SHIPS' STORES AND COMMISSARY STORES
 
Sec. 7605. Acceptance of Government checks outside the United 
        States
        
    Notwithstanding section 3302(a) of title 31, the Secretary of the 
Navy may authorize the officer in charge of any commissary store or 
ship's store ashore located outside the United States to--
        (1) accept any Government check tendered by a retired member of 
    the Navy or the Marine Corps, a member of the Naval Reserve or the 
    Marine Corps Reserve, or a member of the Fleet Reserve or the Fleet 
    Marine Corps Reserve, if the member is the payee of the check and 
    the check is tendered in payment of amounts due from the member to 
    the store; and
        (2) refund in cash any difference between the amount due and the 
    amount of the tendered check.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 471; Pub. L. 96-513, title V, 
Sec. 513(42), Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2935; Pub. L. 97-258, 
Sec. 3(b)(10), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1064.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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7605..................................  34 U.S.C. 552.                       Ju
ly 15, 1939, ch. 285, 53 Stat.
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043.
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    Since the authority of this section to refund any cash balance 
extends only to the payee of a check, the section is written to 
authorize only the payee to cash it. The Fleet Reserve and the Fleet 
Marine Corps Reserve were parts of the Naval Reserve and the Marine 
Corps Reserve, respectively, when the source statute was enacted but 
were removed therefrom by the Armed Forces Reserve Act of 1952. The 
words ``or a member of the Fleet Reserve or the Fleet Marine Corps 
Reserve'' are inserted in clause (1) to give this section the same 
applicability as the source.


                               Amendments

    1982--Pub. L. 97-258 substituted ``section 3302(a) of title 31'' for 
``sections 3639 and 3651 of the Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 521 and 
543)''.
    1980--Pub. L. 96-513 substituted ``sections 3639 and 3651 of the 
Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 521 and 543)'' for ``sections 521 and 543 of 
title 31''.


                    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.
