10-U.S.C.-2651

§2651 – Passengers and Merchandise to Guam: Sea Transport

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Details

• Reference: Section 2651
• Legend: §2651 – Passengers and Merchandise to Guam: Sea Transport
• USCode Year: 2013

Provision Content

Whenever space is available, passengers, and merchandise produced in the United States, or the Commonwealths and possessions, and consigned to residents and mercantile firms of Guam, may be transported to Guam on vessels operated by the Department of Defense, under regulations and at rates to be prescribed by the Secretary of Defense.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 267, §4747; renumbered §2651 and amended Pub. L. 108–375, div. A, title X, §1072(a), (b)(4), Oct. 28, 2004, 118 Stat. 2057, 2058; Pub. L. 109–163, div. A, title X, §1057(a)(6), Jan. 6, 2006, 119 Stat. 3441; Pub. L. 111–383, div. A, title X, §1075(h)(4)(A)(ii), Jan. 7, 2011, 124 Stat. 4377.)

The words without displacing military supplies and of the island of, in 10:1368 and 1371, are omitted as surplusage. The words produced in the United States, or the Territories, Commonwealths, and possessions are substituted for the words of American production.

Amendments

2011—Pub. L. 111–383 made technical amendment to directory language of Pub. L. 109–163, §1057(a)(6). See 2006 Amendment note below.

2006—Pub. L. 109–163, §1057(a)(6), as amended by Pub. L. 111–383, substituted Commonwealths and possessions for Territories, Commonwealths, and possessions.

2004—Pub. L. 108–375, §1072(b)(4), substituted the Department of Defense, under regulations and at rates to be prescribed by the Secretary of Defense for Army transport agencies or, within bulk space allocations made to the Department of the Army, on vessels operated by any transport agency of the Department of Defense, under regulations and at rates to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Army.

Pub. L. 108–375, §1072(a), renumbered section 4747 of this title as this section.

Effective Date of 2011 Amendment

Pub. L. 111–383, div. A, title X, §1075(h), Jan. 7, 2011, 124 Stat. 4377, provided that amendment by section 1075(h)(4)(A)(ii) is effective as of Jan. 6, 2006, and as if included in Pub. L. 109–163 as enacted.

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10-U.S.C.-2647 in the Legal Encyclopedia: General Military Law

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10-U.S.C.-2635 in the Legal Encyclopedia: Supply to Military

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