---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2205"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2205"
heading: "Reimbursements"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2205"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part IV — Service, Supply, and Property"
  - "Chapter 131 — Planning and Coordination"
---

# §2205. Reimbursements

- (a) **Availability of Reimbursements.—** Reimbursements made to appropriations of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense or a [department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) or [agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3) thereof under sections [1535](/usc/31/1535.md) and [1536](/usc/31/1536.md) of title 31, or other amounts paid by or on behalf of a [department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) or [agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3) of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense to another [department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) or [agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3) of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense, or by or on behalf of personnel of any [department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) or organization, for services rendered or [supplies](/usc/10/3011.md?p=8) furnished, may be credited to authorized accounts. Funds so credited are available for obligation for the same period as the funds in the account so credited. Such an account shall be [accounted for](/usc/10/1513.md?p=3) as one fund on the books of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of the Treasury.
- (b) **Fixed Rate for Reimbursement for Certain Services.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense and the [Secretaries](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of the [military departments](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-8) may charge a fixed [rate](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-9) for reimbursement of the costs of providing planning, supervision, administrative, or overhead services incident to any construction, maintenance, or repair project to real property or for providing [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) services, irrespective of the appropriation financing the project or [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) services.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 87–651, title II, § 207(a), Sept. 7, 1962, 76 Stat. 520; amended Pub. L. 96–513, title V, § 511(71), Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2926; Pub. L. 97–258, § 3(b)(4), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1063; Pub. L. 103–337, div. B, title XXVIII, § 2804(a), (b)(1), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 3053.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 2205 | 5:172g. | July 26, 1947, ch. 343, § 408; added Aug. 10, 1949, ch. 412, § 11 (23d par.), 63 Stat. 590. |

5 U.S.C. 172g is restated to reflect more clearly its purpose to authorize the Department of Defense to operate as an integrated department by permitting supplies to be furnished and services to be rendered within and among agencies of the Department of Defense and provide that reimbursements therefor be credited to authorized accounts and be available for the same purpose and period as the accounts so credited. (See Senate Report No. 366, 81st Congress, pp. 23, 24.)

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–337 substituted “Reimbursements” for “Availability of reimbursements” as section catchline, designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and inserted subsec. heading, and added subsec. (b).

1982—Pub. L. 97–258 substituted “sections 1535 and 1536 of title 31” for “the Act of March 4, 1915 (31 U.S.C. 686)”.

1980—Pub. L. 96–513 substituted “the Act of March 4, 1915 (31 U.S.C. 686)” for “section 686 of title 31”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1980 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 96–513 effective Dec. 12, 1980, see section 701(b)(3) of Pub. L. 96–513, set out as a note under section 101 of this title.