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[CITE: 10USC9836]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                          Subtitle D--Air Force
 
                PART IV--SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT
 
             CHAPTER 953--ACCOUNTABILITY AND RESPONSIBILITY
 
Sec. 9836. Individual equipment: unauthorized disposition

    (a) No enlisted member of the Air Force may sell, lend, pledge, 
barter, or give any clothing, arms, or equipment furnished him by the 
United States to any person other than a member of the Air Force, or an 
officer of the United States, authorized to receive it.
    (b) If a member of the Air Force has disposed of property in 
violation of subsection (a) and it is in the possession of a person who 
is neither a member of the Air Force, nor an officer of the United 
States, authorized to receive it, that person has no right to or 
interest in the property, and any civil or military officer of the 
United States may seize it, wherever found. Possession of such property 
furnished by the United States to a member of the Air Force, by a person 
who is neither a member of the Air Force nor an officer of the United 
States, is prima facie evidence that it has been disposed of in 
violation of subsection (a).
    (c) If an officer who seizes property under subsection (b) is not 
authorized to retain it for the United States, he shall deliver it to a 
person who is authorized to retain it.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 594.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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9836(a)...............................  10:1316 (words before semicolon of   R.
S. 1242.
                                         1st sentence).                      R.
S. 3748.
                                        10:1317 (words before semicolon of
                                         1st sentence).
9836(b)...............................  10:1316 (less words before
                                         semicolon, and less last 16 words
                                         of 1st sentence).
                                        10:1317 (less words before
                                         semicolon of 1st sentence and less
                                         last 16 words of last sentence).
9836(c)...............................  10:1316 (last 16 words of 1st
                                         sentence).
                                        10:1317 (last 16 words of last
                                         sentence).
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    In subsection (a), the word ``equipment'' is substituted for the 
words ``military outfits, and accouterments'', in 10:1316 and 1317. The 
word ``exchanged'' is omitted as surplusage. The last 22 words are 
inserted to reflect various provisions authorizing transfer of the 
enumerated items of property.
    In subsections (a) and (b), the words ``enlisted member'' and 
``member'' are substituted for the word ``soldier'', in 10:1316 and 
1317.
    In subsection (b), the first 16 words of the first sentence are 
inserted for clarity. The words ``authorized to receive it'' are 
substituted for the words ``duly authorized'', in 10:1316. The words 
``such property furnished by the United States'' are substituted for the 
words ``any such clothes, arms, military outfits, or accouterments'', in 
10:1316.
    In subsection (c), the first 19 words are inserted for clarity. The 
words ``person who is authorized to retain it'' are substituted for the 
words ``quartermaster [,] or other officer authorized to receive the 
same'', in 10:1316 and 1317.
