---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2614"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2614"
heading: "Emergency communications equipment: acceptance from local public safety agencies for temporary use related to disasters"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2614"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part IV — Service, Supply, and Property"
  - "Chapter 155 — Acceptance of Gifts and Services"
---

# §2614. Emergency communications equipment: acceptance from local public safety agencies for temporary use related to disasters

- (a) **Authority to Accept Equipment.—**
  - (1) Subject to [subsection (c)](#c), the [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/2801.md?p=c-5)—
  - (1) may accept communications equipment for use in coordinating joint [response](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) and recovery operations with public safety [agencies](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3) in the event of a disaster; and
  - (2) may accept services related to the operation and maintenance of such equipment.
- (b) **Regulations.—** The authority under [subsection (a)](#a) shall be exercised under regulations prescribed by the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense.
- (c) **Limitations.—**
  - (1) Equipment may be accepted under [subsection (a)(1)](#a-1) only to the extent that communications equipment under the control of the [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/2801.md?p=c-5) at the potential disaster [response](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) site is inadequate to meet [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) requirements for communicating with public safety [agencies](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3) during the period of [response](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) to the disaster.
  - (2) Services may be accepted under [subsection (a)(2)](#a-2) related to the operation and maintenance of communications equipment only to the extent that the necessary capabilities are not available to the [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) commander having custody of the equipment.
- (d) **Liability.—** A [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) providing services accepted under this section may not be considered, by reason of the provision of such services, to be an [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1), employee, or agent of the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) for any purpose.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 108–375, div. A, title X, § 1051(a), Oct. 28, 2004, 118 Stat. 2053, § 2613; renumbered § 2614 and amended Pub. L. 109–364, div. A, title X, § 1071(a)(19)(A), Oct. 17, 2006, 120 Stat. 2399.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2006—Pub. L. 109–364 renumbered section 2613 of this title as this section and redesignated the second subsec. (c) as (d).