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[CITE: 10USC8074]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                          Subtitle D--Air Force
 
                          PART I--ORGANIZATION
 
                       CHAPTER 807--THE AIR FORCE
 
Sec. 8074. Commands: territorial organization

    (a) Except as otherwise prescribed by law or by the Secretary of 
Defense, the Air Force shall be divided into such organizations as the 
Secretary of the Air Force may prescribe.
    (b) For Air Force purposes, the United States, its Territories, its 
possessions, and other places in which the Air Force is stationed or is 
operating, may be divided into such areas as directed by the Secretary. 
Officers of the Air Force may be assigned to command Air Force 
activities, installations, and personnel in those areas. In the 
discharge of the Air Force's functions or other functions authorized by 
law, officers so assigned have the duties and powers prescribed by the 
Secretary.
    (c) The Military Air Transport Service is redesignated as the 
Military Airlift Command.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 495; Pub. L. 85-599, Sec. 4(f), Aug. 
6, 1958, 72 Stat. 517; Pub. L. 89-37, title III, Sec. 306(a), June 11, 
1965, 79 Stat. 129; Pub. L. 99-433, title V, Sec. 523, Oct. 1, 1986, 100 
Stat. 1063.)

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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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8074(a)...............................  10:1838(a)(1).                       Se
pt. 19, 1951, ch. 407, Secs.
8074(b)...............................  10:1838(a)(2).                        3
08, 309, 65 Stat. 332.
8074(c)...............................  10:1838(b).
8074(d)...............................  10:1839.
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    In subsection (b), the words ``from time to time'' are omitted as 
surplusage.
    In subsection (d), the words ``have the duties and powers'' are 
substituted for the words ``shall perform such duties and exercise such 
powers''. The words ``of America'', ``elements of'', ``other provisions 
of'', and ``so assigned'' are omitted as surplusage.


                               Amendments

    1986--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 99-433 substituted ``Except as otherwise 
prescribed by law or by the Secretary of Defense, the'' for ``The''.
    1965--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 89-37 added subsec. (c).
    1958--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 85-599, Sec. 4(f)(1), substituted 
provisions permitting the Air Force to be divided into such 
organizations as the Secretary of the Air Force may prescribe for 
provisions which established an air-defense, a strategic, and a tactical 
command in the Air Force.
    Subsecs. (b) to (d). Pub. L. 85-599, Sec. 4(f)(2), redesignated 
subsec. (d) as (b), and repealed former subsecs. (b) and (c) which 
permitted the Secretary of the Air Force to establish additional 
commands and organizations in the interest of efficiency and economy of 
operation, and, for the duration of any war or national emergency, to 
establish new major commands or to discontinue or consolidate major 
commands.


                    Effective Date of 1965 Amendment

    Section 306(b) of Pub. L. 89-37 provided that: ``The amendment made 
by subsection (a) of this section [adding subsec. (c)] shall become 
effective January 1, 1966.''
