Federal

Title 10 — Armed Forces

4,032 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 8620 — Gifts for welfare of enlisted members
• § 8621 — Acceptance and care of gifts to vessels
• § 8622 — Naval Historical Center Fund: references to Fund
• § 8623 — Acquisition of land for radio stations and for other purposes
• § 8624 — Transportation on naval vessels during wartime
• § 8625 — Navy Reserve flag
• § 8626 — Navy Reserve yacht pennant
• § 8627 — Foreign naval vessels and aircraft: supplies and services
• § 8628 — Merchant vessels: supplies
• § 8629 — Purchase of fuel
• § 863 — Art. 63. Rehearings
• § 8631 — Accounting for expenditures for obtaining information
• § 8633 — Auxiliary vessels: extended lease authority
• § 8634 — Submarine safety programs: participation of NATO naval personnel
• § 8635 — Establishment of the Southern Sea Otter Military Readiness Areas
• § 864 — Art. 64. Judge advocate review of finding of guilty in summary court-martial
• § 865 — Art. 65. Transmittal and review of records
• § 866 — Art. 66. Courts of Criminal Appeals
• § 8661 — Classification
• § 8662 — Naming
• § 8663 — Number in service in time of peace
• § 8664 — Suspension of construction in case of treaty
• § 8667 — Changing category or type: limitations
• § 8669 — Contracts: applicability of chapter 65 of title 41
• § 8669a — Construction of combatant and escort vessels and assignment of vessel projects
• § 8669b — Senior Technical Authority for each naval vessel class
• § 8669c — Assessments required prior to start of construction on first ship of a shipbuilding program
• § 867 — Art. 67. Review by the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
• § 8670 — Contracts for nuclear ships: sales of naval shipyard articles and services to private shipyards
• § 8671 — Determination of vessel delivery dates
• § 8673 — Model Basin; investigation of hull designs
• § 8674 — Examination of vessels; striking of vessels from Naval Vessel Register
• § 8675 — Vessels stricken from Naval Vessel Register: sale
• § 8675a — Vessels stricken from Naval Vessel Register: contracts for dismantling on net-cost basis
• § 8676 — Vessels stricken from Naval Vessel Register; captured vessels: conveyance by donation
• § 8676a — Vessels stricken from Naval Vessel Register: use for experimental purposes
• § 8676b — Vessels stricken from Naval Vessel Register: transfer by gift or otherwise for use as artificial reefs
• § 8677 — Disposals to foreign nations
• § 8678 — Chief of Naval Operations: certification required for disposal of combatant vessels
• § 8678a — Limitation on decommissioning or inactivating a battle force ship before the end of expected service life
• § 8679 — Construction of vessels in foreign shipyards: prohibition
• § 8679a — Contracting with shipyards controlled by a foreign adversary country: prohibition
• § 867a — Art. 67a. Review by the Supreme Court
• § 868 — Art. 68. Branch offices
• § 8680 — Overhaul, repair, etc. of vessels in foreign shipyards: restrictions
• § 8681 — Repair or maintenance of naval vessels: handling of hazardous waste
• § 8682 — Service craft stricken from Naval Vessel Register; obsolete boats: use of proceeds from exchange or sale
• § 8683 — Ship overhaul work: availability of appropriations for unusual cost overruns and for changes in scope of work
• § 8684 — Overhaul of naval vessels: competition between public and private shipyards
• § 8684a — Omitted]
• § 8685 — Preservation of Navy shipbuilding capability
• § 8686 — Support for transfers of decommissioned vessels and shipboard equipment
• § 8687 — Status of Government rights in the designs of vessels, boats, and craft, and components thereof
• § 8688 — Repealed. Pub. L. 119–60, div. A, title VIII, § 811(a)(8) , Dec. 18, 2025 , 139 Stat. 948 ]
• § 8688a — Omitted]
• § 8689 — Requirements for availability of funds relating to advanced naval nuclear fuel systems based on low-enriched uranium
• § 869 — Art. 69. Review by Judge Advocate General
• § 8690 — Limitation on length of overseas forward deployment of naval vessels
• § 8691 — Nuclear-powered aircraft carriers: dismantlement and disposal
• § 8692 — Ford-class aircraft carriers: cost limitation baselines
• § 8693 — Biennial report on shipbuilder training and the defense industrial base
• § 8694 — Annual report on ship maintenance
• § 8695 — Navy battle force ship assessment and requirement reporting
• § 8696 — Navy shipbuilding workforce development special incentive
• § 8697 — Battle force ship employment, maintenance, and manning baseline plans
• § 8698 — Roles and responsibilities relating to sustainment and readiness of certain naval surface vessels
• § 870 — Art. 70. Appellate counsel
• § 8701 — Authority to provide for necessary salvage facilities
• § 8702 — Acquisition and transfer of vessels and equipment
• § 8703 — Settlement of claims
• § 8704 — Disposition of receipts
• § 871 — Repealed. Pub. L. 114–328, div. E, title LVIII, § 5302(b)(2) , Dec. 23, 2016 , 130 Stat. 2923 ]
• § 8715 — Naval Observatory: administration
• § 8716 — Naval Observatory: exchange of information with foreign offices
• § 872 — Art. 72. Vacation of suspension
• § 8720 — Definitions
• § 8721 — Jurisdiction and control
• § 8722 — Administration
• § 8723 — Periodic re-examination of production requirements
• § 8724 — Protection of oil reserves; contracts for conservation
• § 8725 — Acquisition by condemnation and purchase
• § 8727 — Cooperative or unit plans in the naval petroleum reserves
• § 8728 — Agreements and leases: provision for change
• § 8729 — Re-lease of certain lands: lessee’s preferential right
• § 873 — Art. 73. Petition for a new trial
• § 8730 — Disposition of products
• § 8731 — Requirements as to consultation and approval
• § 8732 — Authorizations of appropriations
• § 8733 — Disposition of royalties
• § 8735 — Foreign interest
• § 8736 — Regulations
• § 8737 — Violations by lessee
• § 8738 — Rifle, Colorado, plant; possession, use, and transfer of
• § 8739 — Certain oil shale reserves: transfer of jurisdiction and petroleum exploration, development, and production
• § 874 — Art. 74. Remission and suspension
• § 8742 — Physical examination: employees engaged in hazardous occupations
• § 8743 — Employment of aliens
• § 8746 — Administration of oaths by clerks and employees
• § 8747 — Transportation of dependents and household effects of civilian personnel stationed outside the United States: payment in lieu of transportation
• § 8748 — Naval War College and Marine Corps University: civilian faculty members
• § 8749 — Civil service mariners of Military Sealift Command: release of drug and alcohol test results to Coast Guard
• § 8749a — Civil service mariners of Military Sealift Command: alcohol testing
• § 875 — Art. 75. Restoration
• § 8750 — Special agents of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service: authority to execute warrants and make arrests
• § 8751 — Notification of Navy procurement production disruptions
• § 8752 — Contracts for research
• § 8753 — Tolls and fares: payment or reimbursement
• § 8754 — Marine mammals: use for national defense purposes
• § 8755 — Disclosures for offerors for certain shipbuilding major defense acquisition program contracts
• § 876 — Art. 76. Finality of proceedings, findings, and sentences
• § 8761 — Obsolete and other material: gift or sale to Boy Scouts of America, Naval Sea Cadet Corps and Young Marines of the Marine Corps League
• § 8761a — Uniform clothing: sale to Naval Sea Cadet Corps
• § 8761b — Authority to make grants for purposes of Naval Sea Cadet Corps
• § 8762 — Excess clothing: sale for distribution to needy
• § 8763 — Useless ordnance material: disposition of proceeds on sale
• § 8764 — Devices and trophies: transfer to other agencies
• § 8765 — Obsolete material and articles of historical interest: loan or gift
• § 8766 — Loan or gift of articles to ships’ sponsors and donors
• § 8767 — Equipment for instruction in seamanship: loan to military schools
• § 876a — Art. 76a. Leave required to be taken pending review of certain court-martial convictions
• § 876b — Art. 76b. Lack of mental capacity or mental responsibility: commitment of accused for examination and treatment
• § 877 — Art. 77. Principals
• § 8771 — Quarters or other accommodations: to whom furnished
• § 8772 — Quarters: accommodations in place for members on sea duty or assigned to duty in connection with commissioning or fitting out of a ship
• § 8773 — Quarters: temporary; transient members
• § 8776 — Quarters: extension telephones
• § 8777 — Quarters: Nurse Corps officers; assignment in hospitals
• § 8779 — Officers’ messes and quarters: limitations on employment of enlisted members
• § 878 — Art. 78. Accessory after the fact
• § 8780 — Heat and light for Young Men’s Christian Association buildings
• § 8781 — Marine Corps post laundries: disposition of receipts
• § 8782 — Naval and Marine Corps Historical Centers: fee for providing historical information to the public
• § 879 — Art. 79. Conviction of offense charged, lesser included offenses, and attempts
• § 880 — Art. 80. Attempts
• § 8801 — Sales: members of the naval service and Coast Guard; widows and widowers; civilian employees and other persons
• § 8802 — Sales: members of Army, Air Force, and Space Force; prices
• § 8803 — Sales: veterans under treatment
• § 8804 — Ships’ stores: sale of goods and services
• § 8805 — Acceptance of Government checks outside the United States
• § 8806 — Subsistence and other supplies: members of armed forces; veterans; executive or military departments and employees; prices
• § 881 — Art. 81. Conspiracy
• § 882 — Art. 82. Soliciting commission of offenses
• § 8821 — Definitions
• § 8822 — Admiralty claims against the United States
• § 8823 — Admiralty claims by the United States
• § 883 — Art. 83. Malingering
• § 884 — Art. 84. Breach of medical quarantine
• § 885 — Art. 85. Desertion
• § 8851 — Scope of chapter
• § 8852 — Jurisdiction
• § 8853 — Court in which proceedings brought
• § 8854 — Effect of failure to start proceedings
• § 8855 — Appointment of prize commissioners and special prize commissioners
• § 8856 — Duties of United States attorney
• § 8857 — Duties of commanding officer of capturing vessel
• § 8858 — Duties of prize master
• § 8859 — Libel and proceedings by United States attorney
• § 886 — Art. 86. Absence without leave
• § 8860 — Duties of prize commissioners
• § 8861 — Interrogation of witnesses by prize commissioners
• § 8862 — Duties of marshal
• § 8863 — Prize property appropriated for the use of the United States
• § 8864 — Delivery of property on stipulation
• § 8865 — Sale of prize
• § 8866 — Mode of making sale
• § 8867 — Transfer of prize property to another district for sale
• § 8868 — Disposition of prize money
• § 8869 — Security for costs
• § 887 — Art. 87. Missing movement; jumping from vessel
• § 8870 — Costs and expenses a charge on prize property
• § 8871 — Payment of costs and expenses from prize fund
• § 8872 — Recaptures: award of salvage, costs, and expenses
• § 8873 — Allowance of expenses to marshals
• § 8874 — Payment of witness fees
• § 8875 — Commissions of auctioneers
• § 8876 — Compensation of prize commissioners and special prize commissioners
• § 8877 — Accounts of clerks of district courts
• § 8878 — Interfering with delivery, custody, or sale of prize property
• § 8879 — Powers of district court over prize property notwithstanding appeal
• § 887a — Art. 87a. Resistance, flight, breach of arrest, and escape
• § 887b — Art. 87b. Offenses against correctional custody and restriction
• § 888 — Art. 88. Contempt toward officials
• § 8880 — Appeals and amendments in prize causes
• § 8881 — Reciprocal privileges to cobelligerent
• § 889 — Art. 89. Disrespect toward superior commissioned officer; assault of superior commissioned officer
• § 8891 — Scope of chapter
• § 8892 — Stay of suit
• § 8893 — Stay of proceedings for preserving evidence after stay of suit
• § 8894 — Stay of proceedings for taking evidence before suit is filed
• § 8895 — Stay extended or shortened
• § 8896 — Reconsideration of stay
• § 8897 — Duration of stay
• § 8898 — Restricted certificate
• § 8899 — Investigation before issue of certificate
• § 890 — Art. 90. Willfully disobeying superior commissioned officer
• § 8900 — Evidence admissible when witness is not available
• § 8901 — Composition
• § 8902 — Appointment and enlistment in reserve components
• § 8903 — Release from Militia duty upon order to active duty in reserve components
• § 8904 — Availability of material for Naval Militia