Volume 71 · 45
Public Law 85–43
To authorize the sale of degaussing equipment by the Department of the Navy to the owners or operators of privately owned merchant ships of United States registry.
Approved May 31, 1957
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the sale of degaussing equipment by the Department of the Navy to the owners or operators of privately owned merchant ships of United States registry.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That title 10, United States Code, is amended—
by inserting after section 7229 a new section reading as follows:
Ҥ 7230. Sale of degaussing equipment
“The Secretary of the Navy, under such regulations as he prescribes, may sell at prices which represent the current or estimated replacement cost to the Navy, to owners or operators of privately owned merchant ships of United States registry, degaussing equipment available from Navy stock but not readily available commercially, in order to promote the installation, repair, and maintenance of degaussing equipment on American vessels. Collections received from such sales shall be reimbursed to the current appropriation or fund concerned.”
by inserting at the end of the section analysis of chapter 631, title 10, United States Code, a new item reading as follows:
Approved May 31, 1957.