10 U.S.C. § 2610 — Competitions for excellence: acceptance of monetary awards
submitted 30 years ago by Pub. L. 104-106 to r/title-10-ARMED-FORCES · 236 words · no verdicts yet
The Secretary of Defense may accept a monetary award won in a nongovernmental competition recognizing service or program excellence. The award must support morale, welfare, and recreation, and the section sets expense, regulation, reporting, and expiration rules.
(a) The Secretary may accept a monetary award given to the Department of Defense by a nongovernmental entity because the Department participated in a competition recognizing excellence or innovation in services or program administration. (b) The award must be credited to one or more nonappropriated accounts supporting morale, welfare, and recreation for the recognized command, installation, or activity, and may be spent only on those activities. (c) Subject to appropriation-law limits, Defense appropriations may pay* incidental participation or award-acceptance costs. (d) The Secretary must issue regulations governing award disposition and incidental expenses, and annually report to Congress how awards were disposed of and expenses paid. (e) This authority expired February 10, 1998.
The Secretary of Defense may accept a monetary award given to the Department of Defense by a nongovernmental entity as a result of the participation of the Department in a competition carried out to recognize excellence or innovation in providing services or administering programs.
A monetary award accepted under subsection (a) shall be credited to one or more nonappropriated fund accounts supporting morale, welfare, and recreation activities for the command, installation, or other activity that is recognized for the award. Amounts so credited may be expended only for such activities.
Subject to such limitations as may be provided in appropriation Acts, appropriations available to the Department of Defense may be used to pay* incidental expenses incurred by the Department to participate in a competition described in subsection (a) or to accept a monetary award under this section.
The Secretary shall prescribe regulations to determine the disposition of monetary awards accepted under this section and the payment of incidental expenses under subsection (c).
At the end of each year, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report for that year describing the disposition of monetary awards accepted under this section and the payment of incidental expenses under subsection (c).
The authority of the Secretary under this section shall expire on February 10, 1998.
Source credit: (Added Pub. L. 104–106, div. A, title III, § 377(a), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 283; amended Pub. L. 104–201, div. A, title X, § 1074(a)(16), Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2659.)
- 1996Enacted · Pub. L. 104-106 · 110 Stat. 283
- 1996Amended · Pub. L. 104-201 · 110 Stat. 2659
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