---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2787"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2787"
heading: "Reports of survey"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2787"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part IV — Service, Supply, and Property"
  - "Chapter 165 — Accountability and Responsibility"
---

# §2787. Reports of survey

- (a) **Action on Reports of Survey.—** Under regulations prescribed pursuant to [subsection (c)](#c), any [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Space Force or any civilian employee of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense designated in accordance with those regulations may act upon reports of surveys and vouchers pertaining to the loss, spoilage, unserviceability, unsuitability, or destruction of, or damage to, property of the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) under the control of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense.
- (b) **Finality of Action.—**
  - (1) Action taken under [subsection (a)](#a) is final except as provided in [paragraph (2)](#b-2).
  - (2) An action holding a [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) pecuniarily liable for loss, spoilage, destruction, or damage is not final until approved by a [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) designated to do so by 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), commander of a combatant command, or Director of a [Defense Agency](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-11), as the case may be, who has jurisdiction of the [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) held pecuniarily liable. The [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) designated to provide final approval shall be an [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) of an armed force, or a civilian employee, under the jurisdiction of the official making the designation.
- (c) **Regulations.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense shall prescribe regulations to carry out this section.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 107–314, div. A, title X, § 1006(a)(1), Dec. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 2632; amended Pub. L. 116–283, div. A, title IX, § 924(b)(3)(HH), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 3822.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2021—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 116–283 substituted “Marine Corps, or Space Force” for “or Marine Corps”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Pub. L. 107–314, div. A, title X, § 1006(d), Dec. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 2633, provided that: “The amendments made by this section [enacting this section, amending section 1007 of Title 37, Pay and Allowances of the Uniformed Services, and repealing sections 4835 and 9835 of this title] shall apply with respect to the loss, spoilage, unserviceability, unsuitability, or destruction of, or damage to, property of the United States under the control of the Department of Defense occurring on or after the effective date of regulations prescribed pursuant to section 2787 of title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection (a).”