10 USC § 520b - Applicants for enlistment: authority to use funds for the issue of authorized articles

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title: "10 USC § 520b - Applicants for enlistment: authority to use funds for the issue of authorized articles"
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title_name: "ARMED FORCES"
section_number: "520b"
section_name: "Applicants for enlistment: authority to use funds for the issue of authorized articles"
chapter_number: 31
chapter_name: "ENLISTMENTS"
part_number: "II"
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source_credit: "(Added Pub. L. 98–525, title XIV, § 1401(a)(1), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2614; amended Pub. L. 99–145, title XIII, § 1303(a)(4)(A), Nov. 8, 1985, 99 Stat. 738.)"
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# § 520b. Applicants for enlistment: authority to use funds for the issue of authorized articles

Funds appropriated to the Department of Defense may be used for the issue of authorized articles to applicants for enlistment.

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**Source Credit**: (Added Pub. L. 98–525, title XIV, § 1401(a)(1), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2614; amended Pub. L. 99–145, title XIII, § 1303(a)(4)(A), Nov. 8, 1985, 99 Stat. 738.)

## Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

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### Amendments

1985— substituted “enlistment” for “enlistments”.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

> “The amendments made by sections 1401 [enacting this section and sections 956, 979 to 981, 1047 to 1050, 1074b [now 1074c], 1093, 1589, 2007 to 2009, 2484, 2638, and 2639 of this title, amending sections 1074, 1077, 1079, 2104, and 7204 of this title, and repealing
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