---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2872a"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2872a"
heading: "Utilities and services"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2872a"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part IV — Service, Supply, and Property"
  - "Chapter 169 — Military Construction and Military Family Housing"
  - "Subchapter IV — Alternative Authority for Acquisition and Improvement of Military Housing"
---

# §2872a. Utilities and services

- (a) **Authority To Furnish.—** The [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/2801.md?p=c-5) may furnish utilities and services referred to in [subsection (b)](#b) in connection with any [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) housing acquired or constructed pursuant to the exercise of any authority or combination of authorities under this subchapter if the [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) housing is located on a [military installation](/usc/10/2801.md?p=c-4).
- (b) **Covered Utilities and Services.—** The utilities and services that may be furnished under [subsection (a)](#a) are the following:
  - (1) Electric power.
  - (2) Steam.
  - (3) Compressed air.
  - (4) Water.
  - (5) Sewage and garbage [disposal](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2).
  - (6) Natural gas.
  - (7) Pest control.
  - (8) Snow and ice [removal](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2).
  - (9) Mechanical refrigeration.
  - (10) Telecommunications service.
  - (11) Firefighting and fire protection services.
  - (12) Police protection services.
  - (13) Street sweeping.
  - (14) Tree trimming and [removal](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2).
- (c) **Reimbursement.—**
  - (1) The [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/2801.md?p=c-5) shall be reimbursed for any utilities or services furnished under [subsection (a)](#a).
  - (2) The amount of any cash payment received under [paragraph (1)](#c-1) as reimbursement for the cost of furnishing utilities or services shall—
    - (A) in the case of a cost paid using [funds](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6) appropriated or otherwise made available before October 1, 2014, be credited to the appropriation or working capital account from which the cost of furnishing utilities or services concerned was paid; or
    - (B) in the case of a cost paid using [funds](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6) appropriated or otherwise made available on or after October 1, 2014, be credited to the appropriation or working capital account currently available for the purpose of furnishing utilities or services under [subsection (a)](#a).
  - (3) Amounts credited under [paragraph (2)](#c-2) to an appropriation or account shall be merged with [funds](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6) in such appropriation or account, and shall be available to the same extent, and subject to the same terms and conditions, as such [funds](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [div. B, title XXVIII, § 2805(a)], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A–414; amended Pub. L. 107–314, div. B, title XXVIII, § 2802(a), Dec. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 2703; Pub. L. 113–66, div. B, title XXVIII, § 2804, Dec. 26, 2013, 127 Stat. 1007; Pub. L. 116–92, div. B, title XXX, § 3032, Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 1936.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2019—Subsec. (b)(13), (14). Pub. L. 116–92 added pars. (13) and (14).

2013—Subsec. (c)(2), (3). Pub. L. 113–66 substituted “under paragraph (1) as reimbursement for the cost of furnishing utilities or services shall—” for “under paragraph (1) shall be credited to the appropriation or working capital account from which the cost of furnishing the utilities or services concerned was paid.”, added subpars. (A) and (B), designated second sentence of par. (2) as par. (3), and substituted “Amounts credited under paragraph (2)” for “Amounts so credited”.

2002—Subsec. (b)(11), (12). Pub. L. 107–314 added pars. (11) and (12).