10 U.S.C. § 2787 — Reports of survey
submitted 24 years ago by Pub. L. 107-314 to r/title-10-ARMED-FORCES · 196 words · no verdicts yet
Authorized military officers and Defense civilians may decide reports and vouchers about loss or damage to Defense-controlled United States property. Such decisions are generally final, but findings that a person owes money require approval by a designated superior.
(a) Under regulations, designated Army*, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Space Force officers and designated Defense civilian employees may act on reports and vouchers concerning property under Defense control that was lost, spoiled, unusable, unsuitable, destroyed, or damaged.
(b)(1) An action under (a) is final unless (2) applies. (2) An action making a person financially liable is not final until approved by a person designated by the military-department Secretary, combatant-command commander, or Defense-Agency Director who has jurisdiction over that person. The approver must be an armed-forces officer* or civilian under the designating official.
(c) The Secretary of Defense must issue regulations implementing this section.
Under regulations prescribed pursuant to subsection (c), any officer* of the Army*, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Space Force or any civilian employee of the Department of Defense designated in accordance with those regulations may act upon reports of surveys and vouchers pertaining to the loss, spoilage, unserviceability, unsuitability, or destruction of, or damage to, property of the United States under the control of the Department of Defense.
Action taken under subsection (a) is final except as provided in paragraph (2).
An action holding a person pecuniarily liable for loss, spoilage, destruction, or damage is not final until approved by a person designated to do so by the Secretary of a military department, commander of a combatant command, or Director of a Defense Agency*, as the case may be, who has jurisdiction of the person held pecuniarily liable. The person designated to provide final approval shall be an officer of an armed force, or a civilian employee, under the jurisdiction of the official making the designation.
The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe regulations to carry out this section.
Source credit: (Added Pub. L. 107–314, div. A, title X, § 1006(a)(1), Dec. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 2632; amended Pub. L. 116–283, div. A, title IX, § 924(b)(3)(HH), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 3822.)
- 2002Enacted · Pub. L. 107-314 · 116 Stat. 2632
- 2021Amended · Pub. L. 116-283 · 134 Stat. 3822
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 107-314 on 2002-12-02.
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