10 U.S.C. § 8628 — Merchant vessels: supplies
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The Navy can sell fuel and supplies to a merchant ship in an emergency. This only applies if the ship can't buy supplies locally or safely reach another port. The Navy charges a fair price and expects prompt payment.
(a) The Secretary of the Navy may sell fuel and other needed supplies* to a merchant ship, but only when the ship truly needs them. Two things must be true first: the ship must not be able to get the supplies from any other source where it currently is, and it must not be able to safely reach the nearest port that has them — safely meaning without risking the ship, its crew's health and comfort, or the cargo it's carrying.
(b) When the Navy makes this kind of sale, it charges whatever price the Secretary considers reasonable. Payment is either in cash or through some other method that reasonably ensures the Navy gets paid promptly. Unless another law says otherwise, the money from these sales goes back into the same Navy appropriation account that paid for the supplies, so it can be used again for the same purposes.
The Secretary of the Navy, under such regulations as he prescribes, may sell to a merchant ship such fuel and other supplies* as may be required to meet its necessities if the ship is unable—
to procure the supplies from other sources at its present location; and
to proceed to the nearest port where they may be obtained without endangering the safety of the ship, the health and comfort of its personnel, or the safe condition of the property carried on it.
Sales under this section shall be at such prices as the Secretary considers reasonable. Payment shall be made on a cash basis or on such other basis as will reasonably assure prompt payment. Amounts received from such a sale shall, unless otherwise directed by another provision of law, be credited to the current appropriation concerned and are available for the same purposes as that appropriation.
Source credit: (Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 448, § 7228; renumbered § 8628, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 807(d)(1), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1836.)
- 1956Enacted · Act of Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041
- 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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