---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2241b"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2241b"
heading: "Prohibition on contracts providing payments for activities at sporting events to honor members of the armed forces"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2241b"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part IV — Service, Supply, and Property"
  - "Chapter 134 — Miscellaneous Administrative Provisions"
  - "Subchapter I — Miscellaneous Authorities, Prohibitions, and Limitations on the Use of Appropriated Funds"
---

# §2241b. Prohibition on contracts providing payments for activities at sporting events to honor members of the armed forces

- (a) **Prohibition.—** The [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense may not enter into any contract or other agreement under which payments are to be made in exchange for activities by the contractor intended to honor, or giving the appearance of honoring, members of the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4) (whether members of the [regular](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-12) [components](/usc/10/3011.md?p=13) or the [reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) [components](/usc/10/3011.md?p=13)) at any form of sporting event.
- (b) **Construction.—** Nothing in [subsection (a)](#a) shall be construed as prohibiting the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense from taking actions to facilitate activities intended to honor members of the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4) at sporting events that are provided on a pro bono basis or otherwise funded with non-Federal funds if such activities are provided and received in accordance with applicable rules and regulations regarding the acceptance of gifts by the [military departments](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-8), the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4), and members of the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 114–92, div. A, title III, § 341(a), Nov. 25, 2015, 129 Stat. 792.)