10 USC § 8875 - Commissions of auctioneers

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identifier: "/us/usc/t10/s8875"
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title: "10 USC § 8875 - Commissions of auctioneers"
title_number: 10
title_name: "ARMED FORCES"
section_number: "8875"
section_name: "Commissions of auctioneers"
chapter_number: 883
chapter_name: "PRIZE"
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. 481, § 7675; renumbered § 8875, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 807(d)(9), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1837.)"
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# § 8875. Commissions of auctioneers

**(a)** The Secretary of the Navy may establish a scale of commissions to be paid to auctioneers employed to make sales of prize property. These commissions are in full satisfaction of expenses as well as services. The scale may in no case allow a commission in excess of—

**(1)** ½ of 1 percent on any amount exceeding $10,000 on the sale of a vessel; and

**(2)** 1 percent on any amount exceeding $10,000 on the sale of other prize property.

**(b)** If no such scale is established, auctioneers in prize causes shall be paid such compensation as the court considers just under the circumstances of each case.

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**Source Credit**: (Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 481, § 7675; renumbered § 8875, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 807(d)(9), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1837.)

| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 7675 | 34 U.S.C. 1156. | R.S. 4650. |

The word “amount” is substituted for the word “sum”.

## 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 .