---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2678"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2678"
heading: "Feral horses and burros: removal from military installations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2678"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part IV — Service, Supply, and Property"
  - "Chapter 159 — Real Property; Related Personal Property; and Lease of Non-Excess Property"
---

# §2678. Feral horses and burros: removal from military installations


When feral horses or burros are found on an installation under the jurisdiction of the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of a [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) [department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6), the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) may use helicopters and motorized equipment for their [removal](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2).


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 101–510, div. A, title XIV, § 1481(h)(1), Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1708.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in Pub. L. 101–165, title IX, § 9030, Nov. 21, 1989, 103 Stat. 1135, which was set out as a note under section 2241 of this title, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 101–510, § 1481(h)(3).

A prior section 2678, added Pub. L. 85–861, § 1(51), Sept. 2, 1958, 72 Stat. 1460, related to acquisition of mortgaged housing units, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 97–214, §§ 7(1), 12(a), July 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 173, 176, effective Oct. 1, 1982, and applicable to military construction projects, and to construction and acquisition of military family housing authorized before, on, or after such date.