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[CITE: 37USC418]

 
         TITLE 37--PAY AND ALLOWANCES OF THE UNIFORMED SERVICES
 
                          CHAPTER 7--ALLOWANCES
 
Sec. 418. Clothing allowance: enlisted members

    (a) The President may prescribe the quantity and kind of clothing to 
be furnished annually to an enlisted member of the armed forces or the 
National Guard, and may prescribe the amount of a cash allowance to be 
paid to such a member if clothing is not so furnished to him.
    (b) In determining the quantity and kind of clothing or allowances 
to be furnished pursuant to regulations prescribed under this section to 
persons employed as National Guard technicians under section 709 of 
title 32, the President shall take into account the requirement under 
subsection (b) of such section for such persons to wear a uniform.
    (c) A uniform allowance may not be paid, and uniforms may not be 
furnished, under section 1593 of title 10 or section 5901 of title 5 to 
a person referred to in subsection (b) for a period of employment 
referred to in that subsection for which clothing is furnished or a 
uniform allowance is paid under this section.

(Pub. L. 87-649, Sept. 7, 1962, 76 Stat. 478; Pub. L. 104-106, div. A, 
title X, Sec. 1038(c), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 432; Pub. L. 104-201, 
div. A, title VI, Sec. 654, Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2583.)

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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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418...................................  37:305.                              Oc
t. 12, 1949, ch. 681, Sec.  505,
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3 Stat. 828.
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    The words ``the armed forces'' are substituted for the words ``the 
Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marine Corps, the Coast Guard'' to 
conform to the definition in section 101(4) of this title. The words 
``the Naval Reserve, the Marine Corps Reserve, . . . the National Guard 
of the United States, the Air National Guard of the United States, the 
Army Reserve, the Air Force Reserve, and the Coast Guard Reserve'' are 
omitted, since, under the definitions of the armed forces concerned in 
sections 3062(c), 5001(a)(1) and (2), and 8062(d) of title 10, and 
section 751a of title 14, those organizations, or their successors, are 
components of the armed force concerned.


                               Amendments

    1996--Pub. L. 104-106 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) 
and added subsecs. (b) and (c).
    Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 104-201 substituted ``for which clothing is 
furnished or a uniform allowance is paid under this section'' for ``for 
which a uniform allowance is paid under section 415 or 416 of this 
title''.

     Ex. Ord. No. 10113. Clothing Allowances for Enlisted Personnel

    Ex. Ord. No. 10113, Feb. 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 1065, provided:
    By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United 
States and as Commander in Chief of the armed forces, it is ordered as 
follows:
    1. The Secretary of Defense with respect to enlisted men of the 
Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marine Corps, the Naval Reserve, the 
Marine Corps Reserve, the National Guard, the Air National Guard, the 
National Guard of the United States, the Air National Guard of the 
United States, the Organized Reserve Corps [Army Reserve] and the Air 
Force Reserve, and the Secretary of the Treasury with respect to 
enlisted men of the Coast Guard and the Coast Guard Reserve, are hereby 
authorized and directed, after appropriate consultation with the 
Director of the Bureau of the Budget [now Director of the Office of 
Management and Budget], to perform the functions vested in the President 
by section 505 of the Career Compensation Act of 1949, approved October 
12, 1949 (Public Law 351, 81st Congress) [this section], relative to 
prescribing the quantity and kind of clothing which shall be furnished 
annually to enlisted men of the aforesaid services and relative to 
prescribing the amount of the cash allowance to be paid to such enlisted 
men in any case in which clothing is not so furnished to them.
    2. The quantity and kind of clothing, and any cash allowances in 
lieu thereof, prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury hereunder with 
respect to the Coast Guard and the Coast Guard Reserve shall, so far as 
practicable, be in conformity with those prescribed by the Secretary of 
Defense with respect to the Navy and Naval Reserve, respectively.
    3. Existing regulations prescribing the quantity and kind of 
clothing furnished, and any cash allowances in lieu thereof, shall 
remain in effect until modified, revoked, or superseded by action taken 
pursuant to this order.
    4. The term ``enlisted men'' as used in this order shall be deemed 
to apply to enlisted persons of either sex.
    5. This order shall become effective on April 1, 1950, and on that 
date shall supersede Executive Order No. 10049 [Apr. 4, 1949, 14 F.R. 
1563] entitled ``Delegating the Authority of the President to Prescribe 
Clothing Allowances, and Cash Allowances in Lieu Thereof, to Enlisted 
Men in the Armed Forces.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 907 of this title.
