---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 18235"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "18235"
heading: "Administration; other use permitted by Secretary"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/18235"
units:
  - "Subtitle E — Reserve Components"
  - "Part V — Service, Supply, and Procurement"
  - "Chapter 1803 — Facilities for Reserve Components"
---

# §18235. Administration; other use permitted by Secretary

- (a) The [Secretary](/usc/10/12521.md?p=4) of Defense, after consulting the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives on matters of policy, may—
  - (1) administer, operate, maintain, and equip [facilities](/usc/10/18232.md?p=2) constructed, expanded, rehabilitated, or converted under [section 18233 of this title](/usc/10/18233.md) or otherwise acquired and used for the purposes of this chapter;
  - (2) permit persons or organizations other than members and units of the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4) to use those [facilities](/usc/10/18232.md?p=2) under such leases or other agreements as he considers appropriate; and
  - (3) cover the payments received under those leases or agreements into the Treasury to the credit of the appropriation from which the cost of maintaining the [facility](/usc/10/18232.md?p=2), including its utilities and services, is paid.
- (b) The [Secretary](/usc/10/12521.md?p=4) may not permit any use or disposition to be made of a [facility](/usc/10/18232.md?p=2) covered by [subsection (a)](#a) that would interfere with its use—
  - (1) for administering and training the [reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) components of the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4); or
  - (2) in time of war or national emergency, by other units of the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4) or by the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) for any other purpose.

## Source credit

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 122, § 2235; renumbered § 18235 and amended Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title XVI, § 1664(b)(2), (7), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 3010; Pub. L. 104–106, div. A, title XV, § 1502(a)(2), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 502; Pub. L. 106–65, div. A, title X, § 1067(1), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 774.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 2235(a) | 50:883(c) (less 1st sentence, and less last 70 words of last sentence). | Sept. 11, 1950, ch. 945, § 4(c) (less 1st sentence), 64 Stat. 830. |
| 2235(b) | 50:883(c) (last 70 words of last sentence). |  |

In subsection (a), the words “from time to time” and “or appropriations” are omitted as surplusage.

In subsection (b), the words “United States” are substituted for the words “Federal Government”. The words “units of” are omitted as surplusage. The words “may not” are substituted for the words “shall at no time”.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1999—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 106–65 substituted “and the Committee on Armed Services” for “and the Committee on National Security” in introductory provisions.

1996—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 104–106 substituted “Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on National Security of the House of Representatives” for “Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives”.

1994—Pub. L. 103–337, § 1664(b)(2), renumbered section 2235 of this title as this section.

Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 103–337, § 1664(b)(7), substituted “18233” for “2233(a)(1)”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1994 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 103–337 effective Dec. 1, 1994, except as otherwise provided, see section 1691 of Pub. L. 103–337, set out as an Effective Date note under section 10001 of this title.