10 USC § 8624 - Transportation on naval vessels during wartime

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title: "10 USC § 8624 - Transportation on naval vessels during wartime"
title_number: 10
title_name: "ARMED FORCES"
section_number: "8624"
section_name: "Transportation on naval vessels during wartime"
chapter_number: 861
chapter_name: "SECRETARY OF THE NAVY: MISCELLANEOUS POWERS AND DUTIES"
part_number: "IV"
part_name: "GENERAL ADMINISTRATION"
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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. 447, § 7224; renumbered § 8624, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 807(d)(1), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1836.)"
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# § 8624. Transportation on naval vessels during wartime

In time of war or during a national emergency declared by the President, such persons as the Secretary of the Navy authorizes by regulation may be transported and subsisted on naval vessels at Government expense.

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**Source Credit**: (Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 447, § 7224; renumbered § 8624, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 807(d)(1), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1836.)

| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 7224 | 34 U.S.C. 474. | Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 756, § 18, 60 Stat. 855. |

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018— renumbered  as this section.

## 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 .

### Termination of War and Emergencies

Joint Res. , , provided that in the interpretation of section 474 of former Title 34, the date , should be deemed to be the date of termination of any state of war theretofore declared by Congress and of the national emergencies proclaimed by the President on , and .

The state of war with Japan ended on , by the coming into effect of the Treaty of Peace with Japan on that date. The state of war with Germany ended on . See notes preceding , War and National Defense.