---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2494"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2494"
heading: "Nonappropriated fund instrumentalities: furnishing utility services for morale, welfare, and recreation purposes"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2494"
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"
---

# §2494. Nonappropriated fund instrumentalities: furnishing utility services for morale, welfare, and recreation purposes


Appropriations for the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense may be used to provide utility services for—

- (1) buildings on [military installations](/usc/10/2801.md?p=c-4) authorized by regulation to be used for morale, welfare, and recreation purposes; and
- (2) other morale, welfare, and recreation activities for members of the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 108–375, div. A, title VI, § 651(c)(4), Oct. 28, 2004, 118 Stat. 1972.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 2494 was renumbered section 2491 of this title.