10 USC § 2491c - Retention of morale, welfare, and recreation funds by military installations: limitation

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title: "10 USC § 2491c - Retention of morale, welfare, and recreation funds by military installations: limitation"
title_number: 10
title_name: "ARMED FORCES"
section_number: "2491c"
section_name: "Retention of morale, welfare, and recreation funds by military installations: limitation"
chapter_number: 147
chapter_name: "COMMISSARIES AND EXCHANGES AND OTHER MORALE, WELFARE, AND RECREATION ACTIVITIES"
subchapter_number: "III"
subchapter_name: "MORALE, WELFARE, AND RECREATION PROGRAMS AND NONAPPROPRIATED FUND INSTRUMENTALITIES"
part_number: "IV"
part_name: "SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROPERTY"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(Added Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title III, § 373(a), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2736, § 2219; amended Pub. L. 104–106, div. A, title III, § 341, Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 265; renumbered § 2491c, Pub. L. 108–375, div. A, title VI, § 651(d), Oct. 28, 2004, 118 Stat. 1972.)"
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# § 2491c. Retention of morale, welfare, and recreation funds by military installations: limitation

Amounts may not be retained in a nonappropriated morale, welfare, and recreation account of a military installation of an armed force in excess of the amount necessary to meet cash requirements of that installation. Amounts in excess of that amount shall be transferred to a single nonappropriated morale, welfare, and recreation account for that armed force. This section does not apply to the Coast Guard.

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**Source Credit**: (Added Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title III, § 373(a), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2736, § 2219; amended Pub. L. 104–106, div. A, title III, § 341, Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 265; renumbered § 2491c, Pub. L. 108–375, div. A, title VI, § 651(d), Oct. 28, 2004, 118 Stat. 1972.)

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2004— renumbered  as this section.

1996—, in first sentence, substituted “an armed force” for “a military department”, in second sentence, substituted “a single, nonappropriated morale, welfare, and recreation account for that armed force” for “a single, department-wide nonappropriated morale, welfare, and recreation account of the military department”, and inserted after second sentence “This section does not apply to the Coast Guard.”

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Transfer of Functions

For transfer of authorities, functions, personnel, and assets of the Coast Guard, including the authorities and functions of the Secretary of Transportation relating thereto, to the Department of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see sections 468(b), 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of , as modified, set out as a note under .