---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2253"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2253"
heading: "Motor vehicles"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2253"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part IV — Service, Supply, and Property"
  - "Chapter 134 — Miscellaneous Administrative Provisions"
  - "Subchapter II — Miscellaneous Administrative Authority"
---

# §2253. Motor vehicles

- (a) **General Authorities.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense and the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of each [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) [department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) may—
  - (1) provide for insurance of official motor vehicles in a foreign country when the laws of such country require such insurance; and
  - (2) purchase right-hand drive passenger sedans at a cost of not more than $30,000 each.
- (b) **Hire of Passenger Vehicles.—** Amounts appropriated to the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense for operation and maintenance of the active forces may be used for the hire of passenger motor vehicles.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 100–370, § 1(e)(1), July 19, 1988, 102 Stat. 845; amended Pub. L. 105–85, div. A, title VIII, § 805, Nov. 18, 1997, 111 Stat. 1834; Pub. L. 112–81, div. A, title VIII, § 814(a), Dec. 31, 2011, 125 Stat. 1491.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Subsection (a)(1) of this section and sections 2241(b) and 2242(1), (4) of this title are based on Pub. L. 98–212, title VII, § 705, Dec. 8, 1983, 97 Stat. 1437.

Subsection (a)(2) is based on Pub. L. 99–190, § 101(b) [title VIII, § 8005(i)], Dec. 19, 1985, 99 Stat. 1185, 1202.

Subsection (b) of this section and sections 2241(a) and 2661(a) of this title are based on Pub. L. 98–212, title VII, § 735, Dec. 8, 1983, 97 Stat. 1444, as amended by Pub. L. 98–525, title XIV, §§ 1403(a)(2), 1404, Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2621.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2011—Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 112–81 substituted “passenger sedans” for “vehicles”.

1997—Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 105–85 substituted “$30,000” for “$12,000”.