---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2251"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2251"
heading: "Household furnishings and other property: personnel outside the United States or in Alaska or Hawaii"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2251"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part IV — Service, Supply, and Property"
  - "Chapter 134 — Miscellaneous Administrative Provisions"
  - "Subchapter II — Miscellaneous Administrative Authority"
---

# §2251. Household furnishings and other property: personnel outside the United States or in Alaska or Hawaii

- (a) **In General.—** Subject to [subsection (b)](#b), the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of the [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) [department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) concerned may—
  - (1) purchase household furnishings and automobiles from members of the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4) and civilian employees of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense on duty outside the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) or in Hawaii for resale at cost to incoming personnel; and
  - (2) provide household furnishings, without charge, in other than public quarters occupied by members of the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4) or civilian employees of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense who are on duty outside the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) or in Alaska or Hawaii.
- (b) **Required Determination.—** The authority provided in [subsection (a)](#a) may be used only when it is determined, under regulations approved by the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense, that the use of that authority would be advantageous to the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 100–370, § 1(e)(1), July 19, 1988, 102 Stat. 845.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Section is based on Pub. L. 98–212, title VII, § 723, Dec. 8, 1983, 97 Stat. 1443.