10 U.S.C. § 7561 — Rations
submitted 70 years ago by ch. 1041 to r/title-10-ARMED-FORCES · 135 words · no verdicts yet
This section governs Army rations. It authorizes the President to set their contents and quantities, gives active-duty enlisted soldiers one ration daily, and provides special hospital foods.
(a) The President may set the components of the Army* ration and the amounts of those components. The President may direct that equivalent items be issued instead of the prescribed components whenever, in the President’s opinion, either economy or the health and comfort of Army members requires the substitution.
(b) Under the direction of the Secretary of the Army, the branch, office, or officer* designated by the Secretary must issue the components of the Army ration.
(c) An enlisted Army member on active duty* is entitled to one ration each day. When issued, an emergency ration is in addition to the regular ration.
(d) Fresh or preserved fruits, milk, butter, and eggs needed for the proper diet of sick people in hospitals must be provided under regulations prescribed by the Surgeon General and approved by the Secretary.
The President may prescribe the components, and the quantities thereof, of the Army* ration. He may direct the issue of equivalent articles in place of the prescribed components whenever, in his opinion, economy and the health and comfort of the members of the Army so require.
Under the direction of the Secretary of the Army, the branch, office, or officer* designated by him shall issue the components of the Army ration.
An enlisted member* of the Army on active duty* is entitled to one ration daily. The emergency ration, when issued, is in addition to the regular ration.
Fresh or preserved fruits, milk, butter, and eggs necessary for the proper diet of the sick in hospitals shall be provided under regulations prescribed by the Surgeon General and approved by the Secretary.
Source credit: (Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 255, § 4561; renumbered § 7561, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 808(d), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1839.)
- 1956Enacted · Act of Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041
- 2018Amended · Pub. L. 115-232 · 132 Stat. 1839
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 1041 on 1956-08-10.
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