10 U.S.C. § 8627 — Foreign naval vessels and aircraft: supplies and services

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The Navy can give supplies and services to friendly foreign warships and aircraft. Normally the foreign country must pay the Navy back, or treat U.S. ships the same way in return. Some routine services can be free if there's a reciprocal deal.

(a) The Secretary of the Navy can let any U.S. naval ship or base provide certain supplies and services to a foreign country's naval vessels and military aircraft. This is only allowed when it serves U.S. interests, and normally the foreign country must reimburse the Navy — though the Navy doesn't need payment up front. There's also a reciprocity rule: this only applies if that foreign country provides similar help to U.S. naval ships and aircraft on the same basis. The specific things the Navy can provide are: routine port services in U.S. waters, like pilots, tugboats, garbage removal, line handling, and utilities; routine airport services, like help landing and taking off, runway use, and parking; general supplies such as fuel, food, spare parts, and other stores — but never ammunition; and overhauls, repairs, or alterations, along with any equipment needed to do that work. (b) Some of these services can be given for free instead of being reimbursed. If U.S. Navy personnel and equipment provide routine port or airport services at no real extra cost to the Navy, the foreign country doesn't have to pay for them. The Secretary can also waive reimbursement for routine port services to a foreign country's naval vessels — or routine airport services to its military aircraft — if there's an agreement that the foreign country will do the same for U.S. vessels or aircraft for free. If a Navy self-funded ("working-capital fund") activity provides these free services and doesn't get paid back directly because of that free-reciprocal arrangement, the Navy must reimburse that activity out of its regular operating funds instead. (c) Any payments the Navy does receive for supplies or services under this section can be put back into the same type of Navy appropriation account that originally paid for them, so the money stays available for the same purpose.

the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

(a)

The Secretary of the Navy, under such regulations as he prescribes, may authorize any United States naval vessel or activity to furnish any of the following supplies or services, when in the best interests of the United States, on a reimbursable basis without an advance of funds if similar supplies and services are furnished on a like basis to naval vessels and military aircraft of the United States by the foreign country concerned:

(1)

Routine port services in territorial waters of the United States or in waters under United States control, including pilotage, tugs, garbage removal, line-handling, and utilities, to naval vessels of foreign countries.

(2)

Routine airport services, including landing and takeoff assistance, use of runways, parking and servicing, to military aircraft of foreign countries.

(3)

Miscellaneous supplies, including fuel, provisions, spare parts, and general stores, but not including ammunition, to naval vessels and military aircraft of foreign countries.

(4)

Overhauls, repairs, and alterations together with necessary equipment and its installation required in connection therewith, to naval vessels and military aircraft of foreign countries.

(b)

(1)

Routine port and airport services may be furnished under this section at no cost to the foreign country concerned where such services are provided by United States naval personnel and equipment without direct cost to the Navy.

(2)

When furnishing routine port services under this section to naval vessels of a foreign country, the Secretary may furnish such services without reimbursement if such services are provided under an agreement that provides for the reciprocal furnishing by such country of routine port services to naval vessels of the United States without reimbursement. When furnishing routine airport services under this section to military aircraft of a foreign country, the Secretary may furnish such services without reimbursement if such services are provided under an agreement that provides for the reciprocal furnishing by such country of routine airport services to military aircraft of the United States without reimbursement.

(3)

If routine port or airport services are furnished under this section by a working-capital fund activity of the Navy established under section 2208 of this title and such activity is not reimbursed directly for the costs incurred by the activity in furnishing those services by reason of paragraph (2), the working-capital fund activity shall be reimbursed for such costs out of operating funds currently available to the Navy.

(c)

Payments for supplies and services furnished under this section may be credited to current appropriations so as to be available for the same purpose as the appropriation initially charged.

Source credit: (Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 447, § 7227; Pub. L. 86–55, § 1, June 23, 1959, 73 Stat. 89; Pub. L. 98–94, title XII, § 1219(a), Sept. 24, 1983, 97 Stat. 691; Pub. L. 98–525, title XIV, § 1405(49), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2625; Pub. L. 102–190, div. A, title X, § 1048, Dec. 5, 1991, 105 Stat. 1468; renumbered § 8627, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 807(d)(1), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1836.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1956Enacted · Act of Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041
1959Amended · Pub. L. 86-55 · 73 Stat. 89
1983Amended · Pub. L. 98-94 · 97 Stat. 691
1984Amended · Pub. L. 98-525 · 98 Stat. 2625
1991Amended · Pub. L. 102-190 · 105 Stat. 1468
2018Amended · Pub. L. 115-232 · 132 Stat. 1836

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 1041 on 1956-08-10.

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