10 USC § 8265 - Mileage books: commutation tickets

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identifier: "/us/usc/t10/s8265"
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title: "10 USC § 8265 - Mileage books: commutation tickets"
title_number: 10
title_name: "ARMED FORCES"
section_number: "8265"
section_name: "Mileage books: commutation tickets"
chapter_number: 831
chapter_name: "MISCELLANEOUS RIGHTS AND BENEFITS"
part_number: "II"
part_name: "PERSONNEL"
positive_law: true
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 386, § 6154; Pub. L. 97–258, § 3(b)(8), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1063; Pub. L. 98–525, title XIV, § 1405(56)(A), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2626; renumbered § 8265, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 807(b)(10), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1835.)"
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# § 8265. Mileage books: commutation tickets

section 3324 of title 31

The Secretary of the Navy may buy such mileage books, commutation tickets, and other similar transportation tickets as he considers necessary, and he may furnish them to persons ordered to perform travel on official business. Payment for those tickets before the travel is performed is not an advance of public money within the meaning of subsections (a) and (b) of .

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**Source Credit**: (Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 386, § 6154; Pub. L. 97–258, § 3(b)(8), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1063; Pub. L. 98–525, title XIV, § 1405(56)(A), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2626; renumbered § 8265, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 807(b)(10), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1835.)

| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 6154 | 34 U.S.C. 891. | Apr. 27, 1904, ch. 1630, 33 Stat. 403 (6th par., 2d sentence). |

The words “to continue” and the words “upon their receipt in accordance with commercial usage” are omitted as surplusage. The word “persons” is substituted for the words “officers and others”.

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018— renumbered  as this section.

1984— substituted “subsections (a) and (b) of section 3324” for “section 3324(a) and (b)”.

1982— substituted “section 3324(a) and (b)” for “section 529”.

## 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 .