---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2262"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2262"
heading: "Department of Defense conferences: collection of fees to cover Department of Defense costs"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2262"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part IV — Service, Supply, and Property"
  - "Chapter 134 — Miscellaneous Administrative Provisions"
  - "Subchapter II — Miscellaneous Administrative Authority"
---

# §2262. Department of Defense conferences: collection of fees to cover Department of Defense costs

- (a) **Authority to Collect Fees.—**
  - (1) The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense may collect fees from any individual or commercial participant in a conference, seminar, exhibition, symposium, or similar meeting conducted by the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense (in this section referred to collectively as a “conference”).
  - (2) The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) may provide for the collection of fees under this section directly or by contract. The fees may be collected in advance of a conference.
- (b) **Use of Collected Fees.—** Amounts collected under [subsection (a)](#a) with respect to a conference shall be credited to the appropriation or account from which the costs of the conference are paid and shall be available to [pay](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-15) the costs of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense with respect to the conference or to reimburse the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) for costs incurred with respect to the conference.
- (c) **Treatment of Excess Amounts.—** In the event the total amount of fees collected under [subsection (a)](#a) with respect to a conference exceeds the actual costs of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense with respect to the conference, the amount of such excess shall be deposited into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 109–364, div. A, title X, § 1051(a), Oct. 17, 2006, 120 Stat. 2395; amended Pub. L. 115–91, div. A, title X, § 1051(a)(11), Dec. 12, 2017, 131 Stat. 1561.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2017—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 115–91 struck out subsec. (d) which required annual reports on conferences, including information on costs and fees collected.