10 USC § 8243 - Fixing cost on certain vessels and stations

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identifier: "/us/usc/t10/s8243"
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title: "10 USC § 8243 - Fixing cost on certain vessels and stations"
title_number: 10
title_name: "ARMED FORCES"
section_number: "8243"
section_name: "Fixing cost on certain vessels and stations"
chapter_number: 827
chapter_name: "RATIONS"
part_number: "II"
part_name: "PERSONNEL"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 380, § 6083; renumbered § 8243 and amended Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, §§ 807(b)(8), 809(a), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1835, 1840.)"
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# § 8243. Fixing cost on certain vessels and stations

section 8242 of this title

If the Secretary of the Navy considers that it is undesirable to administer the mess on any ship or at any station under the quantity allowance prescribed in , he may fix the cost of each ration for that mess.

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**Source Credit**: (Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 380, § 6083; renumbered § 8243 and amended Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, §§ 807(b)(8), 809(a), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1835, 1840.)

| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 6083 | 34 U.S.C. 902d. | Mar. 2, 1933, ch. 184, § 4, 47 Stat. 1423; Aug. 3, 1951, ch. 287, 65 Stat. 151. |

The words “the cost of each ration for that mess” are substituted for the words “the monetary limit of the cost of ration aboard such ships and at such stations” to make it clear that the figure fixed by the Secretary of the Navy under this section is the amount the mess may spend per day for food for each man subsisting at the mess.

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018— renumbered  as this section and substituted “section 8242” for “section 6082”.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2018 Amendment

Amendment by  effective , with provision for the coordination of amendments and special rule for certain redesignations, see , set out as a note preceding .