Volume 67
Public Law 83–33
To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to furnish certain supplies and services to foreign naval vessels on a reimbursable basis, and for other purposes.
Approved May 27, 1953
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the Secretary of the Navy to furnish certain supplies and services to foreign naval vessels on a reimbursable basis, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and Home of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of the Navy, under such regulations as he may prescribe, is authorized to furnish foreign naval vessels at United States ports and naval bases—
routine port services such as pilotage, tugs, garbage removal, line handling, and utilities on a reimbursable basis without an advance of funds when such routine port services are furnished on a like basis to United States naval vessels at ports and naval bases of the country concerned;
miscellaneous supplies such as fuel, provisions, spare parts, and general stores on a reimbursable basis without an advance of funds when a prior agreement conferring reciprocal rights on the United States and covering the reimbursement therefor has been negotiated with the country concerned; and
supplies and services such as overhauling, repairs, and alterations, including the installation of equipment, when funds to cover the estimated cost thereof have been made available in advance.
Sec. 2.
Payments for the supplies and services furnished pursuant
Payments.
to paragraphs (1) and (2) of the first section of this Act may be credited to current appropriations so as to be available for the same purposes as the appropriation initially charged.
Approved May 27, 1953.