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Title 38 — Veterans’ Benefits

Part V · Chapter 78 — Veterans’ Canteen Service

§ 7804. Financing of Service

Statutory text

To finance the establishment, maintenance, and operation of the Service there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, from time to time, such amounts as are necessary to provide for (1) the acquisition of necessary furniture, furnishings, fixtures, and equipment for the establishment, maintenance, and operation of canteens, warehouses, and storage depots; (2) stocks of merchandise and supplies for canteens and reserve stocks of same in warehouses and storage depots; (3) salaries, wages, and expenses of all employees; (4) administrative and operation expenses; and (5) adequate working capital for each canteen and for the Service as a whole. Amounts appropriated under the authority contained in this chapter and all income from canteen operations become and will be administered as a revolving fund to effectuate the provisions of this chapter.

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. Pub. L. 85–857 · 72 Stat. 1105

    Enacted · 38 U.S.C. § 7804

    Pub. L. 85–857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1250, § 4204

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 85–857, Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1250, § 4204

  2. Pub. L. 92–310 title II § 209 · 86 Stat. 201

    Struck · 38 U.S.C. § 7804

    Pub. L. 92–310 struck out “and premiums on fidelity bonds of employees” in cl. (4)

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 92–310 struck out “and premiums on fidelity bonds of employees” in cl. (4).

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 209. title 38, united sates code Section 4204(4) of title 38, United States Code, relating to fidelity bonds of employees of the Veterans’ Canteen Service, is amended by striking out “and premiums on fidelity bonds of employees”.

  3. Pub. L. 99–576 title VII § 702(14) · 100 Stat. 3248

    Struck · 38 U.S.C. § 7804

    Pub. L. 99–576 struck out “, amounts heretofore appropriated to carry out Public Law 636, Seventy-ninth Congress,” before “and all income”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 99–576 struck out “, amounts heretofore appropriated to carry out Public Law 636, Seventy-ninth Congress,” before “and all income”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (14) Section 4204 is amended by striking out “, amounts heretofore appropriated to carry out Public Law 636, Seventy-ninth 60 Stat. 887. Congress,”.

  4. Department of Veterans Affairs Health-Care Personnel Act of 1991

    Pub. L. 102–40 title IV § 402(a) · 105 Stat. 187

    Changed · 38 U.S.C. § 7804

    Pub. L. 102–40 renumbered section 4204 of this title as this section

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 102–40 renumbered section 4204 of this title as this section.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (a) Transfer of Chapter 75.— Chapter 75 is transferred to the end of part V and is redesignated as chapter 78.

3 of 4 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Amendments1972–1991 · 3 rounds

1991

Pub. L. 102–40 renumbered section 4204 of this title as this section.

1986

Pub. L. 99–576 struck out “, amounts heretofore appropriated to carry out Public Law 636, Seventy-ninth Congress,” before “and all income”.

1972

Pub. L. 92–310 struck out “and premiums on fidelity bonds of employees” in cl. (4).

Credits

1958–1991 · 4 acts
  1. 1958Pub. L. 85–857, , 72 Stat. 1250, § 4204
  2. 1972Pub. L. 92–310, title II, § 209, , 86 Stat. 204
  3. 1986Pub. L. 99–576, title VII, § 702(14), , 100 Stat. 3302
  4. 1991renumbered § 7804 and amended Pub. L. 102–40, title IV, § 402(a), (b)(1), , 105 Stat. 238.
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(Pub. L. 85–857, , 72 Stat. 1250, § 4204; Pub. L. 92–310, title II, § 209, , 86 Stat. 204; Pub. L. 99–576, title VII, § 702(14), , 100 Stat. 3302; renumbered § 7804 and amended Pub. L. 102–40, title IV, § 402(a), (b)(1), , 105 Stat. 238.)

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