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Title 10 — Armed Forces

Part IV · Chapter 147 — Commissaries and Exchanges and Other Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Activities

§ 2495a. Overseas package stores: treatment of United States wines

Statutory text

The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that each nonappropriated-fund activity engaged principally in selling alcoholic beverage products in a packaged form (commonly referred to as a “package store”) that is located at a military installation outside the United States shall give appropriate treatment with respect to wines produced in the United States to ensure that such wines are given, in general, an equitable distribution, selection, and price when compared with wines produced by the host nation.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989

    Pub. L. 100–180 div. A title III § 311(a)(1) · 101 Stat. 1019

    Enacted · 10 U.S.C. § 2495a

    Added Pub. L. 100–180, div. A, title III, § 311(a)(1), Dec. 4, 1987, 101 Stat. 1073, § 2489

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Added Pub. L. 100–180, div. A, title III, § 311(a)(1), Dec. 4, 1987, 101 Stat. 1073, § 2489

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (1) Chapter 147 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new section: “§ 2489. Overseas package stores: treatment of United States wines “The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that each nonappropriated-fund activity engaged principally in selling alcoholic beverage products in a packaged form (commonly referred to as a ‘package store’) that is located at a military installation outside the United States shall give appropriate treatment with respect to wines produced in the United States to ensure that such wines are given, in general, an equitable distribution, selection, and price when compared with wines produced by the host nation.”.

  2. Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005

    Pub. L. 108–375 div. A title VI § 651(b)(2) · 118 Stat. 1811

    Changed · 10 U.S.C. § 2495a

    Pub. L. 108–375 renumbered section 2489 of this title as this section

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 108–375 renumbered section 2489 of this title as this section.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (2) by redesignating sections 2488, 2489, 2489a as sections 2495, 2495a, and 2495b, respectively; and

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2004—Pub. L. 108–375 renumbered section 2489 of this title as this section.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Regulations Deadline

Pub. L. 100–180, div. A, title III, § 311(b), , 101 Stat. 1073, directed Secretary of Defense to prescribe regulations to implement this section not later than 90 days after .

Credits

1987–2004 · 2 acts
  1. 1987Added Pub. L. 100–180, div. A, title III, § 311(a)(1), , 101 Stat. 1073, § 2489
  2. 2004renumbered § 2495a, Pub. L. 108–375, div. A, title VI, § 651(b)(2), (c)(5), , 118 Stat. 1971, 1972.
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(Added Pub. L. 100–180, div. A, title III, § 311(a)(1), , 101 Stat. 1073, § 2489; renumbered § 2495a, Pub. L. 108–375, div. A, title VI, § 651(b)(2), (c)(5), , 118 Stat. 1971, 1972.)

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