---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 196"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "196"
heading: "Renumbered § 4173"
status: "renumbered"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/196"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part I — Organization and General Military Powers"
  - "Chapter 8 — Defense Agencies and Department of Defense Field Activities"
  - "Subchapter I — Common Supply and Service Activities"
---

# [§196. Renumbered § 4173 — renumbered]