10 U.S.C. § 2421 — Plantations and farms: operation, maintenance, and improvement
submitted 70 years ago by ch. 1041 to r/title-10-ARMED-FORCES · 278 words · no verdicts yet
This section makes certain appropriations available to operate overseas plantations and farms that provide fresh produce to the armed forces. It restricts land acquisition, sales, employee benefits, and the duration of the authority.
(a) Appropriations for Army*, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Space Force subsistence may pay* the necessary costs of operating, maintaining, and improving a plantation or farm outside the United States under the relevant service’s jurisdiction to provide fresh fruits and vegetables to the armed forces*. No land may be acquired under this subsection.
(b) Produce beyond what is furnished or sold to armed forces members or civilians serving with them may be sold only outside the United States.
(c) Of people the United States employs under (a), only United States nationals receive benefits under laws about United States civilian employees’ employment, work, compensation, or other benefits.
(d) So far as practicable, a private contractor or lessee must operate, maintain, and improve the plantation or farm. Before using service members, the responsible Secretary must reasonably try to contract or lease with a civilian on terms favorable to the United States. The Secretary’s decision about the effort’s reasonableness and terms’ advantage is final.
(e) This authority ended on September 30, 2018.
Appropriations for the subsistence of members of the Army*, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Space Force are available for expenditures necessary in the operation, maintenance, and improvement of any plantation or farm, outside the United States and under the jurisdiction of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Space Force, as the case may be, for furnishing fresh fruits and vegetables to the armed forces*. However, no land may be acquired under this subsection.
Fruits and vegetables produced under subsection (a) that are over the amount furnished or sold to the armed forces or to civilians serving with the armed forces may be sold only outside the United States.
Of the persons employed by the United States under subsection (a), only nationals of the United States are entitled to the benefits provided by laws relating to the employment, work, compensation, or other benefits of civilian employees of the United States.
A plantation or farm covered by subsection (a) shall be operated, maintained, and improved by a private contractor or lessee, so far as practicable. Before using members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Space Force, as the case may be, the Secretary concerned* must make a reasonable effort to make a contract or lease with a person in civil life for his services for that operation, maintenance, or improvement, on terms advantageous to the United States. A determination by the Secretary as to the reasonableness of effort to make a contract or lease, and as to the advantageous nature of its terms, is final.
The authority under this section shall terminate on September 30, 2018.
Source credit: (Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 138; Pub. L. 114–328, div. A, title VIII, § 833(a)(1), Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2283; Pub. L. 116–283, div. A, title IX, § 924(b)(3)(FF), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 3822.)
- 1956Enacted · Act of Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041
- 2016Amended · Pub. L. 114-328 · 130 Stat. 2283
- 2021Amended · Pub. L. 116-283 · 134 Stat. 3822
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 1041 on 1956-08-10.
all 0 arguments · sorted by: best
no arguments yet — make the first case