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10 USC § 8629 - Purchase of fuel 

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identifier: "/us/usc/t10/s8629"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_legal_evidence"
title: "10 USC § 8629 - Purchase of fuel"
title_number: 10
title_name: "ARMED FORCES"
section_number: "8629"
section_name: "Purchase of fuel"
chapter_number: 861
chapter_name: "SECRETARY OF THE NAVY: MISCELLANEOUS POWERS AND DUTIES"
part_number: "IV"
part_name: "GENERAL ADMINISTRATION"
positive_law: true
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 448, § 7229; renumbered § 8629, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 807(d)(1), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1836.)"
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# § 8629. Purchase of fuel

In buying fuel, the Secretary of the Navy may, in any manner he considers proper, buy the kind of fuel that is best adapted to the purpose for which it is to be used.

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**Source Credit**: (Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 448, § 7229; renumbered § 8629, 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) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 7229 | 34 U.S.C. 580. | R.S. 3728. |

The first sentence is omitted as covered by  (). The words “for the Navy, or for naval stations and yards” are omitted, since R.S. 3728 has been interpreted as authorizing the Armed Services Petroleum Purchasing Agency to negotiate contracts for the purchase of fuel, not only when acting as a procuring activity for the Navy, but also when filling the consolidated fuel requirements of the armed forces. The word “may” is substituted for the words “shall have the power to” for uniformity. The words “discriminate and” are omitted as surplusage.

## 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 .