---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2491a"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2491a"
heading: "Department of Defense golf courses: limitation on use of appropriated funds"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2491a"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part IV — Service, Supply, and Property"
  - "Chapter 147 — Commissaries and Exchanges and Other Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Activities"
  - "Subchapter III — Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Programs and Nonappropriated Fund Instrumentalities"
---

# §2491a. Department of Defense golf courses: limitation on use of appropriated funds

- (a) **Limitation.—** Except as provided in [subsection (b)](#b), funds appropriated to the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense may not be used to equip, operate, or maintain a golf course at a [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) or installation of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense.
- (b) **Exceptions.—**
  - (1) [Subsection (a)](#a) does not apply to a golf course at a [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) or installation outside the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) or at a [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) or installation inside the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) at a location designated by the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense as a remote and isolated location.
  - (2) The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense shall prescribe regulations governing the use of appropriated funds under this subsection.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 103–160, div. A, title III, § 312(a), Nov. 30, 1993, 107 Stat. 1618, § 2246; renumbered § 2491a, Pub. L. 108–375, div. A, title VI, § 651(d), Oct. 28, 2004, 118 Stat. 1972.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2004—Pub. L. 108–375 renumbered section 2246 of this title as this section.