§ 2555. Transportation services: international Girl Scout events

Statutory text

The Secretary of Defense is authorized, under such regulations as he may prescribe, to provide, without expense to the United States Government, transportation from the United States or military commands overseas, and return, on vessels of the Military Sealift Command or aircraft of the Air Mobility Command for (1) those Girl Scouts and officials certified by the Girl Scouts of the United States of America as representing the Girl Scouts of the United States of America at any International World Friendship Event or Troops on Foreign Soil meeting which is endorsed and approved by the National Board of Directors of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America and is conducted outside of the United States, (2) United States citizen delegates coming from outside of the United States to triennial meetings of the National Council of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America, and (3) the equipment and property of such Girl Scouts and officials, to the extent that such transportation will not interfere with the requirements of military operations.

Before furnishing any transportation under subsection (a), the Secretary of Defense shall take from the Girl Scouts of the United States of America a good and sufficient bond for the reimbursement to the United States by the Girl Scouts of the United States of America, of the actual costs of transportation furnished under subsection (a).

Amounts paid to the United States to reimburse it for the actual costs of transportation furnished under subsection (a) shall be credited to the current applicable appropriations or funds to which such costs were charged and shall be available for the same purposes as such appropriations or funds.

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.

1978
Pub. L. 95–492 § 1 · 92 Stat. 1642
Enacted · 10 U.S.C. § 2555
Added Pub. L. 95–492, § 1, Oct. 20, 1978, 92 Stat. 1642, § 2545
Source evidence
Code source credit
Added Pub. L. 95–492, § 1, Oct. 20, 1978, 92 Stat. 1642, § 2545
2000
Pub. L. 106–398 § 1(dA) · 114 Stat. 1654
Changed · 10 U.S.C. § 2555
Pub. L. 106–398 renumbered section 2545 of this title as this section
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 106–398 renumbered section 2545 of this title as this section.
Enacted provision · exact public law section
SECTION 1. ENACTMENT OF FISCAL YEAR 2001 NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT. The provisions of H.R. 5408 of the 106th Congress, as introduced on October 6, 2000, are hereby enacted into law.
2001
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002
Pub. L. 107–107 div. A title IX § 931(a) · 115 Stat. 1012
Substituted · 10 U.S.C. § 2555(a)
Pub. L. 107–107 substituted “Air Mobility Command” for “Military Airlift Command”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 107–107 substituted “Air Mobility Command” for “Military Airlift Command”.
Enacted provision · exact public law section
(a) Current References in Title 10, United States Code.— Section 2554(d) of title 10, United States Code, and section 2555(a) of such title (relating to transportation services for international Girl Scout events) are amended by striking “Military Airlift Command” and inserting “Air Mobility Command”.