10 USC § 9841 - Payment of small amounts to public creditors

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identifier: "/us/usc/t10/s9841"
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title: "10 USC § 9841 - Payment of small amounts to public creditors"
title_number: 10
title_name: "ARMED FORCES"
section_number: "9841"
section_name: "Payment of small amounts to public creditors"
chapter_number: 983
chapter_name: "ACCOUNTABILITY AND RESPONSIBILITY"
part_number: "IV"
part_name: "SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Added Pub. L. 97–258, § 2(b)(14)(B), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1058; amended Pub. L. 116–283, div. A, title IX, § 923(e)(24), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 3820.)"
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# § 9841. Payment of small amounts to public creditors

When authorized by the Secretary of the Air Force, a disbursing official of Air Force or Space Force subsistence funds may keep a limited amount of those funds in the personal possession and at the risk of the disbursing official to pay small amounts to public creditors.

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**Source Credit**: (Added Pub. L. 97–258, § 2(b)(14)(B), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1058; amended Pub. L. 116–283, div. A, title IX, § 923(e)(24), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 3820.)

| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 9841 | 31:493. | Mar. 2, 1907, ch. 2511 (proviso on p. 1166), 34 Stat. 1166. |

The words “Secretary of the Air Force” are substituted for “Secretary of War” because of sections 205(a) and 207(a) and (f) of the Act of  (ch. 343, , 502), and sections 1 and 53 of the Act of  (ch. 1041, , 488, 676). For comparable provisions that apply to the Army, see the revision note for 10:4841.

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2021— inserted “or Space Force” after “official of Air Force”.