10 U.S.C. § 8667 — Changing category or type: limitations

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Money set aside to repair or alter Navy ships usually can't be used to change a ship's category or type. Congress must specifically approve that kind of spending first. This stops the Navy from quietly converting ships using repair funds.

This section limits how the Navy can spend money that Congress appropriates for repairing or altering naval vessels. Normally, that money can't be used to make changes that would actually shift a ship into a different category or type — for example, converting one kind of vessel into another. The only way around this limit is if Congress has specifically made the funds available for that exact purpose. Without that specific approval, repair and alteration funds can only be used for their ordinary purpose: keeping a ship the same type of vessel it already is.

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Unless they have been specifically made available for the purpose, funds appropriated for the repair or alteration of naval vessels may not be used to make repairs or alterations of any vessel that would change its category or type.

Source credit: (Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 449, § 7297; renumbered § 8667, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 807(d)(2), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1836.)

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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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