---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2566"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2566"
heading: "Space and services: provision to military welfare societies"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2566"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part IV — Service, Supply, and Property"
  - "Chapter 152 — Issue of Supplies, Services, and Facilities"
---

# §2566. Space and services: provision to military welfare societies

- (a) **Authority To Provide Space and Services.—** The [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/2801.md?p=c-5) may provide, without charge, space and services under the jurisdiction of that [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) to a [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) welfare society.
- (b) **Definitions.—** In this section:
  - (1) The term “[military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) welfare society” means the following:
    - (A) The Army Emergency Relief Society.
    - (B) The Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society.
    - (C) The Air Force Aid Society, Inc.
    - (D) The Coast Guard Mutual Assistance.
  - (2) The term “services” [includes](/usc/10/101.md?p=g-4) lighting, heating, cooling, electricity, office furniture, office machines and equipment, telephone and other information technology services (including installation of lines and equipment, connectivity, and other associated services), and security systems (including installation and other associated expenses).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 107–314, div. A, title X, § 1066(a), Dec. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 2656; amended Pub. L. 117–81, div. A, title X, § 1043, Dec. 27, 2021, 135 Stat. 1903.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2021—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 117–81, § 1043(1), substituted “concerned” for “of a military department”.

Subsec. (b)(1)(D). Pub. L. 117–81, § 1043(2), added subpar. (D).